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Sergey Gavrilets

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Research Interests

Depending on the context, I call myself a theoretical evolutionary biologist (most of the time) or an applied mathematician (sometimes). I use mathematical models to study complex evolutionary processes. Over the last several years, my research interests have mostly concentrated on the following major areas: social and cultural evolution, speciation and adaptive radiation, sexual conflict, holey fitness landscapes, and micro-evolutionary processes and macro-evolutionary patterns. I have also studied mathematical models aiming to describe/explain maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations, dynamics of genetic variation under selection, frequency-dependent selection and coevolution, maternal and parental effects, hybrid zones and clines, and spatially heterogeneous selection.

Education

  • 1987 - Ph.D., Moscow State University (USSR)

Recent Publications

  • Hayashi, T. I. , J. L. Marshall, and S. Gavrilets (2007) The dynamics of sexual conflict over mating rate with endosymbiont infection that affects reproductive phenotypes" J. Evol. Biol. 20: 2154-2164
  • Gravner, J., D. Pitman, and S. Gavrilets (2007) Percolation on fitness landscapes: effects of correlation, phenotype, and incompatibilitiesJ. Theor. Biol. 248: 627-645
  • Hayashi, T. I., M. Vose and S. Gavrilets (2007) Genetic differentiation by sexual conflict" Evolution  61: 516–529.
  • Gavrilets, S., A. Vose, M. Barluenga, W. Salzburger, and A. Meyer 2007. "Case studies and mathematical models of ecological speciation. 1. Cichlids in a crater lake" Molecular Ecology  16: 2893–2909
  • Gavrilets, S., and A. Vose "Case studies and mathematical models of ecological speciation. 2. Palms on an oceanic island" 2007 Molecular Ecology 16: 2910–2921
  • Gavrilets, S. and A. Vose 2006 "The dynamics of Machiavellian intelligence" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 16823-16828
  • Gavrilets, S. and Rice, W. R. 2006 "Genetic models of homosexuality: generating testable predictions"Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 273: 3031-3038
  • Waxman, D. and Gavrilets, S. "20 Questions on Adaptive Dynamics" J. of Evolutionary Biology 18: 1139-1154
  • Gavrilets, S. 2004 "Fitness landscapes and the Origin of Species", Princeton Uiversity Press.
Sergey Gavrilets

Contact Information

Sergey Gavrilets
Distinguished Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics
569 Dabney Hall
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1610

Phone: (865) 974-8136
Lab: (865)974-5217
Fax: (865) 974-3067
Email: gavrila@tiem.utk.edu