PETER WASER

Emeritus Professor of Biology
LILY G-327
494-8129

I continue to work with colleagues, former graduate students and undergrad research students on long-term datasets from primates (gray-cheeked mangabeys in Uganda) and rodents (banner-tailed kangaroo rats in Arizona),  Research questions include:

• How does dispersal within a possible metapopulation influence population dynamics?
• What are the fitness consequences of dispersal?
• How detrimental is inbreeding in wild populations and how is it avoided?
• Do animals avoid or join kin and if so, how do they recognize them?
• Can genetic data be used to better estimate rates of dispersal? 

Note that, because I will be retiring in 2011, I am no longer taking on new graduate students.