Current Member - Dr. Jen Perry

Dr. Jen Perry

Details

Name: Dr. Jen Perry
Position: NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jennifer.perry@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Personal webpage: http://individual.utoronto.ca/jenperry/

Autobiography

I obtained an undergraduate degree in environmental biology from the University of Alberta, followed by a masters in behavioural ecology with Bernie Roitberg at Simon Fraser University, studying sibling rivalry and parental care in a ladybird beetle. My doctoral work was with Locke Rowe at the University of Toronto. I studied sexual conflict and condition dependence in a ladybird; more specifically, the role of conflict in shaping male and female behaviour, and the extent to which condition-dependence mediates conflict. I began my postdoctoral fellowship in the EGI in January 2011, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Research Activities

I am interested in evolutionary conflicts of interests and their resolution. Currently, I am examining antagonistic coevolution in sexual traits across populations of water striders. I am also studying evolutionary responses to elevated mating rates in Drosophila melanogaster, in collaboration with Stuart Wigby.

Study systems

I work with a variety of insect systems, including Drosophila, ladybird beetles and water striders.

Selected Recent Papers

Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. (in press) Sex-role stereotyping and sexual conflict theory. Animal Behaviour.

Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. (in press) Sexual conflict and antagonistic coevolution across water strider populations. Evolution.

Perry, J.C. 2011. Mating stimulates female feeding: testing the implications for the evolution of nuptial gifts. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 1727-1736.

Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. 2010. Rapid microsatellite development for water striders by next-generation sequencing. Journal of Heredity | Read paper online

Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. 2010. Condition-dependent ejaculate size and composition in a ladybird beetle. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B | Read paper online

Fricke, C., J. Perry, T. Chapman and L. Rowe. 2009. The conditional economics of sexual conflict. Biology Letters 5: 671-674.

Perry, J.C., D.M.T. Sharpe and L. Rowe. 2009. Condition dependent female re-mating resistance generates sexual selection on male size in a ladybird beetle. Animal Behaviour 77: 743-748.

Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. 2008. Ingested spermatophores accelerate reproduction and increase mating resistance but are not a source of sexual conflict. Animal Behaviour 76: 993-1000.

Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. 2008. Neither mating rate nor spermatophore feeding influences longevity in a ladybird beetle. Ethology 114: 504-511.

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