Bram Kuijper
Position: Postdoctoral ResearcherEmail: bk319 [ AT ] cam dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1223 763 897
Mob: +44 (0)7599 685 475
www: transgenerational.zoo.cam.ac.uk/kuijper
Research Interests
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Rufus Johnstone at the University of Cambridge. My appointment is part of an EPSRC funded collaborative project on the evolution of transgenerational effects (see our project website). While interested in various aspects of evolutionary biology, my work focuses on the following topics:
- The evolution of nongenetic inheritance -- What are the ecological conditions favoring the evolution of phenotypic memory on intermediate timescales? Can we reach general insights from comparing different nongenetic inheritance mechanisms?
- Mate choice and sexual selection -- What are the benefits of mate choice over random mating? Are current explanations robust to more mechanistic detail on the level of the choice process, an organism's life history or the genetic underpinnings of sexually selected characters?
- Sex determining systems -- How do spatial population structure and other ecological conditions affect the evolution of haplodiploidy? What experiments are most effective in order to unravel the underlying mechanisms of sex determination?
Publications
- B. Kuijper, I. Pen, F.J. Weissing. (2012). A guide to sexual selection theory. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. in press. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110411-160245
- G. Stulp, B. Kuijper, A.P. Buunk, T.V. Pollet, S. Verhulst. (2012). Intralocus sexual conflict over human height. Biol. Lett. in press. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0590
- B. Kuijper, R.A. Johnstone. (2012). How dispersal influences parent-offspring conflict over investment. Behav. Ecol. 23: 898-906.
- J.G. de Boer, B. Kuijper, G.E. Heimpel, L.W. Beukeboom. (2012). Sex determination meltdown upon biological control introduction of the parasitoid Cotesia rubecula. Evol. Appl. 5: 444-454.
- T.W. Fawcett*, B. Kuijper, F.J. Weissing, I. Pen. (2011). Sex-ratio control erodes sexual selection, revealing evolutionary feedback from adaptive plasticity. PNAS 108: 15925-15930. Doi, PDF
- B. Kuijper, I. Pen. (2010). Evolution of haplodiploidy by male-killing endosymbionts: importance of spatial population structure and endosymbiont mutualisms. J. Evol. Biol. 23: 40-52. Doi, PDF, Supplement 1, Supplement 2
- B. Kuijper, E.H. Morrow, (2009). Direct observation of female mating frequency using time-lapse photography. Fly 3: 1-3. link to article, PDF
- B. Feldmeyer, M. Kozielska, B. Kuijper, F.J. Weissing, L.W. Beukeboom, I. Pen (2008): Climatic variation and the geographical distribution of sex determining mechanisms in the housefly. Evol. Ecol. Res. 10: 797-809. link to article, PDF
- T.W. Fawcett, B. Kuijper, I. Pen, & F.J. Weissing (2007): Should attractive males have more sons? Behav. Ecol. 18: 71-80. Doi, PDF
- B. Kuijper, A.D. Stewart & W.R. Rice (2006): The cost of mating rises nonlinearly with copulation frequency in a laboratory population of Drosophila melanogaster. J. Evol. Biol.19: 1795 - 1802. Doi, PDF
- M. van de Pol, L.W. Bruinzeel, D. Heg, B. Kuijper & S. Verhulst (2006): Experimental and observational evidence that reproductive performance improves with pair bond duration in oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus). Behav. Ecol. 17: 982 - 991. Doi, PDF
