Dr Chris Faulkes
Reader in Evolutionary Ecology
- Room: 5.18, Fogg building
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 3018
- Email: c.g.faulkes("at" sign)qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
Research website: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cgfaulkes/
Molecular Ecology; Social evolution in cooperatively-breeding mammals.
My research interests broadly fall into mammalian evolution and, in particular, the evolution and maintenance of social and reproductive behaviour. This involves a multidisciplinary approach encompassing the fields of molecular ecology, molecular phylogenetics, reproductive physiology and behaviour. My specific study animals have focussed mainly on the African mole-rats of the family Bathyergidae, with some work also on a cooperatively breeding South American primate, the common marmoset monkey. Some other current research projects involve the molecular ecology of Round Island petrels in Mauritius (with Professor Richard Nichols at QMUL), and studies of Island populations of voles around the UK (with Professor John Gurnell at QMUL).