Research
Animals connect to the environment through their sensory systems.
We study how animals send, perceive, and respond to signals and/or cues across different environmental conditions, and how these processes affect animals' fitness in the context of mating and predator-prey interactions.
We aim to understand how sensory systems facilitate animal adaptation to the environment and, ultimately, play the role in determining species ecological niche.
We use two study systems:
The evolution of complex mating signals
The evolution of signals/cues involved in predator-prey interactions