University
of California, Irvine
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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My general areas of interest are experimental evolution and population ecology. More specifically I am interested in the physiological trade-offs that accompany life-history evolution. I am studying this in populations of fruit flies that have adapted to crowded environments and high levels of ammonia in their larval food. I am also interested in the studying the phenomena that are responsible for plateaus in late-life mortality that have been observed in fruit flies and many other organisms. This work involves theoretical and statistical work as well as experiments that have been done in collaboration with my colleague Michael Rose.
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Degrees |
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| BS/AM,
1974, Stanford University Ph.D., 1979, University of California, Davis
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Honors and Awards |
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| Offered
an Earle C. Anthony Fellowship for the year 1977-1978 by the University
of California, Davis NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, October 1979 to October 1982. |
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Current Graduate Students |
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| Daniel Borash, currently postdoctoral fellow, Tsukuba, Japan | ||
Current Post-docs |
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| Fernando
González, currently, Professor at the Department of Genetics,
University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Amitabh Joshi, Currently, Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bagalore, India |
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Recent Courses Taught |
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| Bio. Sci. 115L Evolution laboratory | ||
Links |
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| Personal Website | ||
Recent Papers |
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| Drapeau,
M. D., E. K. Glass, M. D. Simison, L. D. Mueller, and M. R. Rose.
2000. Testing the heterogeneity theory of late-life mortality plateaus
using cohorts of Drosophila melanogaster. Experimental Gerontology
35:71-84. Borash, D. J., Teotónio, H., M. R. Rose, and L. D. Mueller. 2000. Density-dependent natural selection in Drosophila: correlations between feeding rate, development time, and viability. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13:181-187. Mueller, L. D., A. Joshi, and D. J. Borash. 2000. Does population stability evolve? Ecology 81:1273-1285. Mueller, L. D. and A. Joshi, 2000. Stability in Model Populations. Monographs in Population Biology No. 31, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. Pierce, V.A., L.D. Mueller and A.G. Gibbs. 1999. Osmoregulation in Drosophila melanogaster selected for urea tolerance. Journal of Experimental Biology 202: 2349-2358. |
