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Kari Segraves . Assistant Professor
Coevolution, Mutualism, Evolution of Plant-Insect Interactions

ksegrave@syr.edu
Office: 438 Life Sciences Complex
Phone: 315-443-4899 / fax: 315-443-2012

Education:
Ph.D., Vanderbilt State University, 2003
Postdoc,
University of Idaho, Moscow, 2003-2005

Courses:
tba

RESEARCH

Segraves Lab at Syracuse University: http://plantecology.syr.edu/segraves/

Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF): Coevolution as a diversifying force: the role of local adaptation in reproductive isolation

Undergraduate students: Please click here for information about research opportunities in my lab.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Althoff D.M., Segraves K.A., Leebens-Mack J., Pellmyr O. 2006. Patterns of speciation in the yucca moths: parallel species radiations within the Tegeticula yuccasella species complex. Systematic Biology, 55:398-410.

Segraves K.A., Althoff D.M., Pellmyr O. 2005. Limiting cheaters in mutualism: evidence from hybridization between mutualist and cheater yucca moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 272:2195-2202.

Segraves K.A., Pellmyr O. 2004. Testing the ‘Out of Florida’ hypothesis on the origin of cheating in the yucca-yucca moth mutualism. Evolution, 58:2266-2279.

Segraves K.A. 2003. Understanding stability in mutualisms: do extrinsic factors balance the yucca-yucca moth interaction?  Ecology, 84:2943-2951.

Segraves K.A., Thompson J.N. 1999. Plant polyploidy and pollination: floral traits and insect visits to diploid and autotetraploid Heuchera grossulariifolia. Evolution, 53, 1114-1127.

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