Howard Rundle

Biography

Dr. Rundle is working as a Professor in the Department of Biology, at University of Ottawa, Canada. His laboratory research addresses a range of topics including the contributions of natural and sexual selection to adaptation and the purging of deleterious mutations, and various aspects of sexual conflict. He is also interested in how male sexual displays and female mate preferences for them diverge among populations and the role this has in the origin of new species. His approach to these topics is empirical and utilizes experimental evolution, behavioural assays, and quantitative genetic techniques with various species of fruit flies as model organisms. The Rundle lab also does field-based research in Algonquin Park addressing an array of topics including the evolution of ageing, developmental rate, and genital morphology in wild insects, primarily the antler fly (Protopiophila litigata). He is the author of many articles published in several reputed journals. 

Research Interest

  Evolutionary ecology, Sexual selection, Adaptation, Speciation, Mate choice, Quantitative genetics, Drosophila serrata.