Charles W. Fox

Insect Genetics, Behavior
and Evolutionary Ecology

Professor
Entomology Department
University of Kentucky
Lexington KY 40546-0091

Phone: 859-904-9404
Fax: 859-323-1120  
E-mail: Fox@uky.edu

Editor, Functional Ecology
Associate Editor: Evolutionary Ecology Research

BS -- 1987, Department of Zoology, University of California, Davis
PhD -- 1993, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

• Ecology and Evolution of Life Histories
  • Body Size, Sexual Size Dimorphism
  • Egg Size
  • Phenotypic Plasticity
  • Aging and Senescence
  • Maternal Effects
  • Inbreeding Depression
• Insect-Plant Interactions
  • Diet Evolution
    Adaptation to Host Plants
• Insect Behavioral Ecology
  • Egg Laying Decisions
  • Sexual Selection on Body Size / Sexual Dimorphism

Interesting Links

Institutions at which I have worked/studied:

• The Department of Entomology at the University of Kentucky (where I work now; 1999-present)
• The Louis Calder Center and the Department of Biological Sciences at Fordham University (my first faculty position; 1996-1999)
• Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina (my Post-doc; 1993-1996)
  • Timothy A. Mousseau's laboratory at USC
• The Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley (where I obtained my PhD; 1988-1993)
• The Department of Entomology and the Center for Population Biology at the University of California, Davis
  • Hugh Dingle's page (I worked with Hugh for three years during graduate school; 1991-1993)
• The Department of Biology at the University of California, Riverside (I spent a year here before starting at Berkeley; 1987-1988)
• The Department of Zoology at the University of California, Davis (where I obtained my BS)