Dr Stuart Wigby
Research Fellow, Department of Zoology
About
Dr Wigby is broadly interested in the evolutionary biology of reproduction. His research covers sexual selection, sexual conflict, speciation, sperm competition, mating and immunity, life history and ageing. He uses the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model organism to investigate these topics. His current main research questions are: 1) Why are sex and ageing linked? 2) Why do some individuals have more mates than others?
Expertise
- Sex
- Evolution
- Sperm
Selected publications
- Divergent allocation of sperm and the seminal proteome along a competition gradient in Drosophila melanogaster (2019)
- Sex peptide receptor-regulated polyandry modulates the balance of pre- and post-copulatory sexual selection in Drosophila (2019)
- Sperm and sex peptide stimulate aggression in female Drosophila (2017)
Media experience
Dr Wigby has experience of working with the media.