Suzanne Estes

Post-doctoral student

B.Sc., East Central University 1997; Ph.D., University of Oregon 2002

E-Mail: estessu@science.oregonstate.edu, Phone: 541-737-8140, Address: 3029 Cordley Hall, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331.

My work focuses on documenting and determining the evolutionary implications of inbreeding depression in the red-sided garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis. I ask whether the pattern of such fitness depression varies with geographic or genetic distance and how the mating system (e.g., patterns of multiple-paternity) varies with the magnitude of inbreeding depression. Past work dealt with documenting compensatory evolution, determining the distribution of mutational effects on organismal fitness and measuring the covariance structure of mutations affecting life-history, morphological and behavioral traits using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. That work was conducted with Drs. Michael Lynch (Indiana University) and Patrick C. Phillips (University of Oregon). I am currently co-advised by Bob Mason and Steve Arnold.

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