Kim van der Linde

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Kim van der Linde
Affiliation: Florida State University
Homepage: Homepage
Phone: 850-645-8521
WorkingGroup: Plant pests and beneficials, Evo-Devo, EcoGen-PopGen
Species:
  • Drosophila melanogaster,
  • Zaprionus indianus,
  • Drosophila hydei,
  • Drosophila immigrans,
  • Drosophila quadrilineata,
  • Drosophila subobscura,
  • Samoaia leonensis,
  • Scaptodrosophila lebenonensis,
  • Drosophila americana,
  • Drosophila novamexicana

    • My interest is evo-devo and eco-devo in context of large scale patterns across species and within communities. Specifically, I am currently interested in the community response to the invasive species Zaprionus indianus, a competitive superior species that tends to dominate drosophilid communities (up to 90%) by the second year after invading. Basically, how does a community adapt to such a major new player in the community? A second project is related to the evolution of sexual size dimorphism across the drosophilids, a phenomenon that evades direct artificial selection and hence requires novel approaches away from the traditional dogma that sexual selection causes the differences between the sexes.

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