Tobias Uller
Dr Tobias Uller
Contacts
| Email: | tobias.uller@zoo.ox.ac.uk |
| Address: | Department of Zoology, The Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS |
| Phone: | 01865 281194 |
Research Interests
My research interest lies in the interface between development, ecology and evolution. I attempt to understand selective pressures on parental strategies and offspring developmental plasticity in natural populations to address its consequences for ecological and evolutionary processes. Two main patterns of research concern the evolution of sex allocation, i.e., resource allocation to sons versus daughters, and parental effects. Most of my work is conducted on European and Australian frogs and lizards and includes the following topics: evolution of developmental plasticity and maternal effects; phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation; reproductive strategies and sex allocation; evolution of sex determining mechanisms; sperm competition and post-copulatory processes; and population differentiation, inbreeding and disease resistance in amphibians
Other Details
I am Wenner-Gren Fellow and a Fulbright Fellow
Selected Publications
- Uller, T. Developmental plasticity and the evolution of parental effects. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23: 432-438
- Uller, T. & Olsson, M. Multiple paternity in reptiles: patterns and processes. Molecular Ecology 17: 2566-2580
- 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