Current Member - Dr. Tobias Uller
Faculty Member: Departmental Lecturer in Animal Diversity .
Dr. Tobias Uller
Details
Name: Dr. Tobias Uller
Position: Departmental Lecturer in Animal Diversity
Email: tobias.uller@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Autobiography
I graduated in Animal Ecology at Göteborg University, Sweden, in 2000, went on to do a PhD in 2001 and finished in 2004. Between 2005 and 2007 I was a Wenner-Gren Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia, where I continued to work on the evolutionary ecology of lizards and amphibians with a specific focus on sex allocation, sex determination, and maternal effects. I joined the EGI and the University of Oxford in late 2007 when taking up a Departmental Lectureship in Animal Diversity.
Research Activities
My research focuses on the links between phenotypic plasticity and ecological and evolutionary processes. Recent topics include (i) evolution of sex-determining systems; (ii) evolutionary implications of non-genetic inheritance and maternal effects, and (iii) the evolutionary ecology of mating systems and social behaviour. Most empirical projects involve field- and lab-based studies of Australian and European lizards. My research is currently funded by the FP-7, the Australian Research Council and the British Ecological Society.
Other Information
I am a Wenner-Gren Fellow and a Fulbright Fellow. I received the 2009 Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a Young Investigator.
Selected Recent Papers
Uller, T., While, G. M., Cadby, C., Harts, A., O'Connor, K., Pen, I. & Wapstra, E. Altitudinal divergence in maternal thermoregulatory behaviour may be driven by differences in selection on offspring survival in a viviparous lizard. Evolution, in press
Uller, T. & Helanterä, H. From the origin of sex-determining factors to the evolution of sex-determining systems. Quarterly Review of Biology, in press
Uller, T. & Pen, I. A theoretical model of the evolution of maternal effects under parent-offspring conflict. Evolution, in press
Shea, N., Pen I. & Uller, T. Three epigenetic information channels and their different roles in evolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, in press
Olsson, M., Wapstra, E., Schwartz, T., Madsen, T., Ujvari, B., Uller, T. 2011. In hot pursuit: Fluctuating mating system and sexual selection in sand lizards. Evolution 65: 574-585
Pen, I., Uller, T., Feldmeyer, B., Harts, A., While, G. M. & Wapstra, E. 2010. Climate-driven population divergence in sex-determining systems. Nature 468: 436-439
Helanterä, H. & Uller, T. 2010. The Price equation and extended inheritance. Philosophy & Theory in Biology 2: e101.
Uller, T. & Badyaev, A. V. 2009. Evolution of "determinants" in sex determination: A novel hypothesis for the origin of environmental contingencies in avian sex bias. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 20: 304-312
Badyaev, A. V & Uller, T. 2009. Parental effects in ecology and evolution: Mechanisms, processes, and implications. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 364: 1169-1177
Uller, T. 2008. Developmental plasticity and the evolution of parental effects. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23: 432-438.
Uller, T. & Olsson, M. 2008. Multiple paternity in reptiles: patterns and processes. Molecular Ecology 17: 2566-2580.
Uller, T., Pen, I., Wapstra, E., Beukeboom, L. & Komdeur, J. 2007. Evolution of sex ratios and sex-determining systems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 292-297.
Uller, T. & Olsson, M. 2006. No seasonal sex ratio shift despite sex-specific fitness returns of hatching date in a lizard with genotypic sex determination. Evolution 60: 2131-2136.
Uller, T. 2006. Sex-specific sibling interactions and offspring fitness in vertebrates: patterns and implications for maternal sex ratios. Biological Reviews 81: 207-217.
Uller, T., Massot, M., Richard, M., Lecomte, J. & Clobert, J. 2004. Long-lasting fitness consequences of prenatal sex ratio in a viviparous lizard. Evolution 58: 2511-2516.
Uller, T. 2003. Viviparity as a constraint on sex ratio evolution. Evolution 57: 927-931.
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