German Avila Sakar, University of Winnipeg
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Winnipeg, Manitoba
g.avila-sakar@uwinnipeg.ca
Office:
(204) 786-9326
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Bio/Research
My research program focuses on the roles of resource allocation in the interrelationships between the evolution of sexual systems and defence against herbivores in flowering plants. One of the questions I am trying to answer is how certain conditions of resource availability may favour the evolut...
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Bio/Research
My research program focuses on the roles of resource allocation in the interrelationships between the evolution of sexual systems and defence against herbivores in flowering plants. One of the questions I am trying to answer is how certain conditions of resource availability may favour the evolution of unisexuality in plants, including changes in the relationship between fitness and the pattern of resource allocation in a plant brought about by herbivory. In addressing this question, I intend to increase our understanding of the physiological mechanisms that regulate allocation of carbon and nutrients, the potential for resource re-allocation in response to environmental stress factors such as herbivory, and the consequences that particular allocation patterns might have on the evolution of defence and sexual systems.
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