Molecular Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation
Department of Biology, UPR Rio Piedras

Research in my lab relies on molecular data (DNA sequences, microsatellites, multi-locus DNA fingerprints, and more recently gene expression patterns) to study the architecture of genetic variation in terrestrial and marine taxa in the earliest stages of differentiation. Several key current research programs include:

Evolutionary Genomics of Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies

Population History of Speciation and Morphological Differenciation

Applied Evolutionary Biology, including the newly created Molecular Ecology, Evolution, and Genetics Program