Jeff Oliver
 
 
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I am interested in the evolution of phytophagous insects, particularly effects of host-range on insect population genetics and phylogeography. My empirical work focuses mostly on members of the Lycaenidae, or gossamer-winged butterflies. I am working on two intrageneric phylogenies (in the genera Everes and Lycaena), as well as intraspecific gene flow within a pair of Lycaena species. Additionally, I am investigating the host use patterns within each of these genera to determine the effects of novel host plants on population genetics of phytophagous insects. I am also interested in methods of hypothesis testing in phylogeography. I am currently evaluating popular methods of phylogeographic hypothesis testing by simulating data and assessing the validity of methods’ inferences.

Advised by David Maddison and Dan Papaj, I defended my Ph.D. dissertation in November 2007 and am currently doing postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Antonia Monteiro at Yale University, where I am conducting phylogenetic reconstructions of wing pattern evolution in butterflies.

 

by Jeff Oliver

by Jeff Oliver

 
 
  Contact Info
Jeff Oliver, Ph.D.
Monteiro Lab
Department of Biology

Yale University
New Haven, CT
email: jeffrey.oliver@yale.edu
lab: (203) 432-3867
     
 
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Photos of Lycaena xanthoides (top) and Lycaena editha (bottom) by J. Oliver