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17 Mar 2010: axyridis. Chemical insec-ticides are considered undesirable due to the potentially harmfuleffects on people and pets when used inside buildings. ... Our results suggest that C. hippodamiae has great potential tocontrol the spread and increase of the

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Kim Kang Wook. Research Interests. Research interest. The evolution of insect immunity genes. Bioinformatics. Molecular ecology. Education. 2003 PgDip in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis, The University of Edinburgh

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Laura Jane Michie. Research Interests. LJ's Ph.D. is a study of colour polymorphism in three species of ladybird, including the invasive harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis. As ladybirds are aposematic (brightly coloured

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Mike Magwire. Research Interests. Mike is interested in the genetic architecture of viral resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Currently he is mapping several viral resistance genes in D. melanogaster using deficiency

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Claire Webster. Employment. 2007-present Research Technician, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh. 2005 – 2006 Honours Project Student then Research Technician Chris Jiggins Group, Institute of

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Emma Louise Rhule. Research Interests. The aim of Emma's PhD is to assess the potential of the sexually-transmitted mite, Coccipolipus hippodamiae, as a classical biological control agent of the invasive ladybird, Harmonia

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Anastasia Fytrou. Research Interests. Natasa is interested in the evolution of host-parasite interactions, using Drosophila and parasitic wasps as a model system to investigate the genetic determination of resistance. Her

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Lena Wilfert. Research Interests. Lenas research focuses on the evolution of host-parasite interactions. She is particularly interested in the maintenance of genetic variation and recombination in natural populations, two

9 Sep 2010: The Jiggins Lab Webpage. Dr Jenny Bangham. Research Interests. In nature, there is a great deal of genetic variation for susceptibility to pathogens, and this has implications for medicine, agriculture, and evolution. Finding the genes responsible

21 Jul 2010: Jarrod Hadfield. and Shinichi Nakagawa provided invaluable statistical. advice. We are grateful to the people who helped.