Francisco
Garcia-Gonzalez
The main interests of my research group relate broadly to the study of connections between evolution and ecology, with a focus on the evolutionary ecology of interactions between males and females in a context of an always-changing world. Our research attempts to decipher the evolutionary drivers of sexual interactions and aims to integrate the evolutionary consequences of these interactions at different levels, from the underlying genetic variance allowing responses to selection in the face of ecological variation, to the effects upon phenotypes and the fate of populations in response to rapidly changing environmental conditions. Our research includes the study of mating system evolution, the estimation of genetic variation (heritability, evolvability), the study of coevolutionary male-female adaptations to sexual selection and sexual conflict, the study of female/male-driven transgenerational effects on offspring phenotypes and, in general, the genetically- and non-genetically-based transmission of altered environments.