The ecology of hybrid incompatibilities

Ken Thompson, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology, Stanford University

I am an evolutionary biologist whose research centres around the evolutionary ecology of hybrid organisms. I use a combination of theory, data synthesis, and experiments to work toward identifying general features about how selection acts on hybrids in relevant ecological contexts. The overarching goal of my research is to clarify the importance of ecology-based selection (i.e., ‘extrinsic’) selection against hybrids for speciation, and identify the genetic mechanisms through which it acts.  Hybrid ecology