Brian Farrell
Post - Professor
Harvard University Address
Brian D. Farrell
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Main research topics
Brian Farrell is interested in the effects of variation in habitat availability upon speciation.
When consideruing the evolution of herbivory it is important to take a dual approach that considers both the plant perspective and the insect. With this in mind we focus on recent evolutionary history in the interaction of host specialization, and the habitat spatial distribution in speciation.
We have also begun studies in the role of microbial symbionts in mediating insect/plant interactions. Some of our important new work is explicitly focused on insect host specialization and population structure in the tropics.
Selected publications
Farrell, B. D., and A. S. Sequeira. 2004. Evolutionary rates in the adaptive radiation of beetles on plants. Evolution 58:1984-2001
Farrell, B. D. 1999. Flowers and insect evolution. Science 283:143
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