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Research Interests
My research is broadly concerned with understanding how genetics, developmental and physiological processes, and ecology interact to determine the evolutionary responses of organisms to their environments. My primary research interests involve three facets of this broad focus: (1) the demographic and evolutionary responses of species facing novel or altered environments, (2) the evolution of environmentally sensitive phenotypes, and (3) the coevolutionary dynamics of geographically structured interacting species. In addition, I have a strong interest in applied biology, especially in developing statistical tools based on molecular genetic data for assessing population characteristics of ecological and agricultural importance.
Representative Publications
Sokurenko, E. V., R. Gomulkiewicz, and D. E. Dykhuizen. 2006. Source-sink dynamics of virulence evolution. Nature Microbiology 4:548-555
Whitlock, M.C., and R. Gomulkiewicz. 2005. Probability of fixation in a heterogeneous environment. Genetics 171:1407-1417.
McPeek, M., and R. Gomulkiewicz. 2005. Assembling and depleting species richness in metacommunities: insights from ecology, population genetics, and macroevolution. In Metacommunities: spatial dynamics and ecological communities, M. Holyoak, M. A. Leibold, and R. D. Holt (eds.), pp. 355-373. University of Chicago Press.
Holt, R.D., M. Barfield, and R. Gomulkiewicz. 2004. Temporal variation can facilitate niche evolution in harsh sink environments. The American Naturalist 164:187-2004.
Gomulkiewicz, R., S.L. Nuismer, and J.N. Thompson. 2003. Coevolution in variable mutualisms. The American Naturalist 162:S80-S93.
Kingsolver, J., R. Gomulkiewicz, and P.A. Carter. 2001. Variation, selection, and evolution of function-valued traits. Genetica 112/113:87-104.
Gomulkiewicz, R., J. N. Thompson, R. D. Holt, S. L. Nuismer, and M. E. Hochberg. 2000. Hot spots, cold spots, and the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. The American Naturalist 156:156-174.