My research interests range from speciation to sexual selection to the developmental genetics of phenotypic evolution.  The lab has a diverse set of projects underway:

•Genetics of coordinately evolving male wing spots and courtship behavior in Drosophila elegans and D. gunungcola (see Shu-Dan Yeh’s page)

•Molecular genetic basis of naturally occurring melanism in D. elegans

•Evolution of epistatic gene networks (see Joe Lachance’s page)

•Evolutionary implications of pleiotropy of pigmentation genes with other traits (see Rocio Ng’s page)

•The role of the D. melanogaster dopamine pathway in longevity-related traits

•Behavioral ecology of D. elegans on flowers in Taiwan

•developmental genetics and evolution of insect pigmentation

•Population genetics and evolutionary history of new world D. melanogaster populations (see Lawrence Jung’s page)