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Position: PhD Student
Project: Aggression-mediated queen succession in tropical Polistes wasps
Research Interests: Behavioural Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of eusocial species
I am interested in the evolutionary mechanisms underlying plasticity of behaviour and life history traits in simply eusocial wasp species, the behaviourally-mediated reproductive conflict resolution displayed by these species, and the loss of plasticity at the individual level associated with the transition from simple to complex eusociality.
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Background:
2018 – Present: PhD Candidate, University College London
2014 – 2018: MSci Biological Sciences, University College London
Contact:
E-mail: owen.corbett.14@ucl.ac.uk
Twitter: @OwenRCorbett