John Fitzpatrick
Honorary Lecturer
Life Sciences
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Biography
I am an Honorary Lecturer in Animal Evolution and a member of the Computational and Evolutionary Biology research group within the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester. I obtained my Honours BSc in Zoology from the University of British Columbia in my hometown of Vancouver. I then moved to central Canada where I received my PhD from McMaster University. I subsequently moved to Australia where I held a series of Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Centre for Evolutionary Biology at the University of Western Australia.
Research Interest
Sexual selection, sperm competition, cryptic female choice, sperm evolution, sperm form and function, phylogenetic comparative approaches
Publications
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Fitzpatrick, L. J., Gasparini, C., Fitzpatrick, J. L., & Evans, J. P. (2014). Male-female relatedness and patterns of male reproductive investment in guppies. Biology Letters, 10(5), [20140166].
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Lüpold, S., Tomkins, J. L., Simmons, L. W., & Fitzpatrick, J. L. (2014). Female monopolization mediates the relationship between pre- and postcopulatory sexual traits. Nature communications, 5, [3184].
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De Busserolles, F., Fitzpatrick, J. L., Marshall, N. J., & Collin, S. P. (2014). The influence of photoreceptor size and distribution on optical sensitivity in the eyes of lanternfishes (Myctophidae). PLoS ONE, 9(6), [e99957].
