https://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/tag/complex-sexual-communication/complex sexual communicationWowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-us© 2023 Matt WilkinsSun, 22 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/media/icon_hua110898778fe76518384be246087e556_35446_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_2.pnghttps://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/tag/complex-sexual-communication/https://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/writing/research/Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/writing/research/<div style="display: block; " > <img src="featured.jpg" class="featured-image" style="margin: 0;align-self:baseline;max-width: 45%;float: right;margin: 0 0 10px 40px;"/> <p>My previous and ongoing research involves multimodal sexual selection, acoustic divergence, and speciation. For my PhD, I studied barn swallows in North America, Europe, and Asia to quantify variation in feather ornaments and song resulting from different targets of sexual selection across populations. As a postdoc at the University of Nebraska, I extended this work by developing a &lsquo;phenotype network&rsquo; approach for visualizing and analyzing the functional evolution of sexual communication signals in barn swallows and Schizocosa wolf spiders.</p> </div>