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Research Interests
Insect Reproduction
Research Summary
I am interested in the genetic basis for adaptive phenotypic plasticity in insects using a combination of evolutionary and developmental biological approaches. Specifically I am interested in understanding how the environment interacts with genes to produce complex traits. I am currently focusing on horn dimorphisms in scarab beetles and the differential gene expression and regulation of these traits.
Research Publications
2005-2009
Holmes, D.J. and L.C. Lavine, Roaches, apoptosis and the ovarian clock: use it or lose it. Heredity, 2009.
Emlen, D., Corley Lavine, L., and Ewen-Campen, B. 2007 On the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle 'horns'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 8661-8668.
Yamamoto, D., Henderson, R., Corley, L.S. and
Iwabuchi, K. 2007. Intrinsic competition between egg,
egg-larval, and larval parasitoids of plusiine loopers. Ecological
Entomology 32:221-228.
Corley, L.S. and M.D. Lavine, A review of insect stem cell types. Semin Cell Dev Biol, 2006. 17(4): p. 510-7.
Emlen, D.J., Szafran, Q., Corley, L.S., and Dworkin, I. 2006. Candidate genes for the development and evolution of beetle horns. Heredity 97: 179-191.
Corley, L.S., Cotton, S., McConnell, E., Chapman, T., Fowler, K., and Pomiankowski, A. 2006. Highly variable sperm precedence in the stalk-eyed fly Teleopsis dalmanni. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6:53-59.
Corley, L.S., Microevolution and development: studies of the genetic basis of adaptive variation in insects. Evol Dev, 2005. 7(2): p. 79-80.
Corley, L.S., M.A. White, and M.R. Strand, Both endogenous and environmental factors affect embryo proliferation in the polyembryonic wasp Copidosoma floridanum. Evol Dev, 2005. 7(2): p. 115-21.