Toby Daly-Engel

Department of Entomology

Mailing address: Forbes 410, 1140 E. South Campus Rd., Tucson, AZ 85721
Telephone: (808) 225-6431
Email: tengel@email.arizona.edu

• Home
• Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
• Publications
• Research Interests

Research Interests

My research uses genetic techniques to investigate cryptic reproductive behaviors (reproductive behaviors that cannot be directly observed) and their role in the evolution of sexual selection. Specifically, I infer patterns of multiple mating, relatedness, selection gradients, and sex-biased population dynamics using molecular tools. For this work I've been using the giant water bug (Abedus herberti), a large predatory Belostomatid species whose reproductive strategy includes sex role reversal and male parental care.