Tami Cruickshank
Graduate Student

Research Interests:
1. The evolution of maternal effects and maternal effect genes.
2. Evolution of noncoding regulatory sequence.
3. Patterns of variation in early development at the sequence and phenotypic levels.
4. The evolution and development of Gnathocerus cornutus (including developmental genetics of mandibles, factors influencing development time, sex ratio, polyphenism, the role of maternal effects, etc).

Publications:
4) Cruickshank, T. and M.J. Wade. 2008. Microevolutionary support for a developmental hourglass: gene expression patterns shape sequence variation and divergence in Drosophila. Evol & Devel 10: 583-590.

3) Wade, M.J., N.K. Priest and T. Cruickshank. 2007. A theoretical overview of maternal genetic effects: evolutionary predictions and empirical tests using sequence data within and across mammalian taxa. In Maternal Effects in Mammals.

2) Moczek, A.P., T. Cruickshank and A. Shelby. 2006. When ontogeny reveals what phylogeny hides: gain and loss of horns during development and evolution of horned beetles. Evolution 60(11).

1) Wade, M.J. and T. Cruickshank. 2006. Plastic individuals and evolving populations. Trends in Ecol. and Evol. 21(8): 431-2.

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