Born to Fly? How Genes and Environment Shape Wing-Morph Plasticity in Gryllus Crickets

I'm really interested in understanding how environmental factors impact an individuals' life history strategy and how this strategy in turn impacts their performance in future environments. In the Williams lab, I'm using the wing polymorphism in Gryllus crickets as a model to tease apart this interaction between the environment and life history to potentially create a more generalizable approach to predicting species' responses to climate change.

Speaker: Lourenco Martins, UC Berkeley