Chiara De PasqualUniversity of Jyväskylä | JYU · Department of Biological and Environmental Science
Chiara De Pasqual
Master degree in Evolutionary biology
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Introduction
I am a PhD student at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. I am studying the role of sexual selection in the maintenance of phenotypic diversity (i.e color polymorphism). Mating experiments, sex pheromones and, previously, predator interactions, are my main interests.
Additional affiliations
March 2018 - present
September 2017 - February 2018
March 2017 - August 2017
University of Lund
Position
- Internship
Education
October 2013 - December 2016
October 2010 - September 2013
Publications
Publications (4)
Sex pheromones in many insect species are important species-recognition signals that attract conspecifics and inhibit attraction between heterospecifics; therefore, sex pheromones have predominantly been considered to evolve due to interactions between species. Recent research, however, is uncovering roles for these signals in mate choice, and that...
Sex pheromones in many insect species are important species-recognition signals that attract conspecifics and inhibit attraction between heterospecifics; therefore, sex pheromones have predominantly been considered to evolve due to interactions between species. Recent research, however, is uncovering roles for these signals in mate choice, and that...
Chemically defended animals often display conspicuous color patterns that predators learn to associate with their unprofitability and subsequently avoid. Such animals (i.e., aposematic), deter predators by stimulating their visual and chemical sensory channels. Hence, aposematism is considered to be "multimodal." The evolution of warning signals (a...
Local warning colour polymorphism, frequently observed in aposematic organisms, is evolutionarily puzzling. This is because variation in aposematic signals is expected to be selected against due to predators' difficulties associating several signals with a given unprofitable prey. One possible explanation for the existence of such variation is pred...
