Tom Pizzari
University Lecturer in Ornithology
Senior Biology Tutor St. Catherine’s College
Research Interests
I am interested in the evolutionary ecology of sexual behaviour, and most of my work focuses on resolving different aspects of sexual selection and intersexual coevolution, using the fowl, Gallus gallus, as a model species which enables me to use a combination of experimental work, and physiological and molecular tools.
More information at: http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/egi/people/faculty/tom_pizzari.htm
Other Interests
I serve on the NERC Peer review panel, the ASAB council grant committee, the BOU council, as well as on the editorial boards of several journals including American Naturalist, Animal Behaviour and Proceedings of the Royal Society B. I was awarded the ASAB Outstanding Young Investigator Award in 2005, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2008.
Contacts
| Email: | tommaso.pizzari@zoo.ox.ac.uk |
| Phone: | 01865 271279 |
Websites
Selected Publications
- Pizzari, T. & Foster, K.R. 2008. Sperm sociality: cooperation, altruism, and spite. PLoS Biology 6, e130.
- Wright, D., Kerje, S., Brändström, H., Schütz, K., Kindmark, A., Andersson, L., Jensen, P. & Pizzari, T. 2008. The genetic architecture of a female sexual ornament. Evolution 62, 86-98.
- Pizzari T., Cornwallis CK, Løvlie H, Jakobsson S, Birkhead TR 2003. Sophisticated sperm allocation in male fowl. Nature 426, 70-74. 4
- Birkhead T. R. & Pizzari T. 2002 Postcopulatory sexual selection. Nature Rev. Genet. 3, 262-273.
- Pizzari T. & Birkhead T. R. 2000. Female feral fowl eject sperm of subdominant males. Nature 405, 787 – 789.