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SUMMARY:Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo app
 roach - Casper Breuker (Oxford-Brookes University)
DTSTART:20161005T120000Z
DTEND:20161005T130000Z
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CONTACT:Olivia Tidswell
DESCRIPTION:Speckled Wood butterflies (_Pararge aegeria_) have a vast geog
 raphical distribution\, experiencing a variety of different climates and i
 n general habitats\, and as such it is a great model system to study life-
 history evolution. The trait that is very much the focus of much of our wo
 rk is female reproductive output and its trade-offs with other (life-histo
 ry) traits. Not only do we study this at the evolutionary ecological level
 \, but also at the underlying developmental level and aim to characterise 
 the molecular underpinnings of the life-history variation we observe. Furt
 hermore\, we are very interested in transgenerational effects - i.e. mater
 nal regulation of offspring development. I will discuss our latest finding
 s\, including the progress we have made in gene editing in this species (i
 .e. CRISPR/Cas9).
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology
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