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School of the Biological Sciences

 

Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Zoology

Chris Jiggins works on many aspects of Heliconius evolutionary biology, including evolutionary developmental biology of wing patterning, the genetic and behavioural basis for speciation, the sensory ecology of mimicry and analysis of the Heliconius melpomene genome. Learn more

 

Research Areas


Evolution
Speciation
Evolutionary genomics
Insect evolution
 

Techniques


Genome sequencing
Transcriptomics
Behavioural analysis
Gas chromatography
Metabolomics

 

Research Themes