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Background
My
general interests are centred on selective processes that generate
divergence in mating display traits and preferences among
populations, creating the potential for speciation. More specifically, I
am interested in the process of reinforcement and the implications that
the resulting reproductive character displacement can have on sexual
selection and premating isolation within a species. My research has
focused on the evolution of reproductive character displacement in the
cuticular hydrocarbons of Drosophila
serrata
– caused by sympatry with a
close relative,
Drosophila birchii
– and how this displacement has interfered with sexual selection between
allopatric and sympatric populations of
D. serrata.
Publications
8.
Higgie
M
and Blows MW. 2007. Are traits that experience reinforcement also under
sexual selection?
American Naturalist
170:409-420
[PDF]
7. Van Homrigh A,
Higgie M,
McGuigan K, and Blows MW. 2007. The depletion of genetic variance by
sexual selection. Current
Biology 17:528-532
[PDF]
6.
Hoskin CJ,
Higgie M,
McDonald KR, and Moritz C.
2005. Reinforcement drives rapid allopatric speciation.
Nature 437:1353-1356
[PDF]
5.
Hoskin CJ and
Higgie M.
2005. Minimum calling altitudes of
Cophixalus
frogs on Thornton Peak, northeastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland
Museum 51:572
[PDF]
4. Blows MW and
Higgie M.
2003. Genetic constraints on the evolution of mate recognition under
natural selection.
American Naturalist
161:240-253
[PDF]
3. Blows MW and
Higgie M.
2002. Evolutionary experiments on mate recognition in the
Drosophila serrata
species complex.
Genetica 116:239-250
[PDF]
2.
Hine E, Lachish S,
Higgie M,
and Blows MW. 2002. Positive genetic correlation between female preference
and offspring fitness.
Proceedings
of the Royal Society Series B
269:2215-2219
[PDF]
1.
Higgie
M,
Chenoweth S, and Blows MW. 2000. Natural selection and the reinforcement
of mate recognition. Science
290:519-521
[PDF]
Contact
My office number is +61 (0)2 612 5
3539 and my preferred email address is
m.higgie@sib.uq.edu.au.
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