Background

Teaching Interests: Evolution, Genetics, Entomology

• Course information (old course web pages)
• Entomology (Spring 2008)

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Research Interests: Evolutionary Ecology & Physiology; Thermal adaptation;
Plant-Animal-Predator Interactions;

• Description of research
• Publications

Beetles in the Media: several articles appeared in the local media about Sierra Nevada Leaf Beetles in response to press releases in September 2000.

• Santa Rosa Press Democrat, September 13, 2000
• Bay Area Television, KRON Channel 4, September 13, 2000 (4 MB)

Images

• Beetle wing patterns
• Electron micrographs of beetle mouthparts

Links to sites in Genetics and Evolution

Department of Biology | Sonoma State University

January 30, 2002