A fully-funded PhD position is available at the Department of Ecology
and Evolution (U Lausanne) and the Museum of Zoology in Lausanne to
work on the evolutionary ecology of reproductive modes in mayflies,
co-supervised by Michel Sartori and Tanja Schwander.
Start in January 2015 or soon thereafter.
The evolution and maintenance of sexual reproduction has been one of
the major questions in evolutionary biology for the last decades:
although biparental sex entails many costs, asexuality is rare among
metazoans. The PhD candidate will assess the contribution of various
factors to the maintenance of sex and parthenogenesis in natural
populations of mayflies (Ephemeroptera). Facultative parthenogenesis
is known to occur in many species, with a high level of variation:
some species are characterized by very efficient parthenogenesis with
high egg hatching success whereas virgin females in other species
produce hardly any offspring. Such variation allows testing various
costs and benefits of sexual reproduction and parthenogenesis,
depending on different ecological contexts in a comparative framework.
We are looking for outstanding candidates with a background in
ecology, evolutionary biology or equivalent (note that a master degree
is required by the doctoral school to enter the PhD program). In
addition to academic qualifications, a certain practical flair is
necessary for surveying natural populations (field work) and possibly
optimize/ develop rearing conditions.
Interested candidates should send a motivation letter, cv (including
contacts for references) and diplomas as a single pdf file to
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information about the topic, contact
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Tanja Schwander
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Lausanne
Le Biophore
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Office: +41 (0)21 692 4151
Secretary: +41 (0)21 692 4160
Fax: +41 (0)21 692 4165
lab website:
http://www.unil.ch/dee/en/home/menuinst/research/group-schwander.html
theme issue on reproductive system evolution:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeb.2014.27.issue-7/issueto |
