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How strong is contemporary selection on suites of traits and how rapid is evolution? How does natural selection that we can measure now (microevolution) translate to what see on 'macroevolutionary' timescales? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1404226956692-7PSNG5M3D67AOTHP4UHK/phym_solidago4-leveled.jpg Research Sexual Dimorphism: Males and females have fundamentally different evolutionary interests, often leading to striking sex-differences in phenotype. How do the sexes manage to diverge despite sharing the same genome? For example, what do alleles that benefit my daughters (female optimum) mean for the success of my sons (male optimum)? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1404227151973-YQMWKTWGADFGLW2TF2F7/tachinid4.jpg Research Genetic Architecture: Evolution is limited by the availability of genetic variance and among-trait correlations. Does this result in strong genetic constraints? How readily do genetic systems evolve? On one hand, it is undeniable that trait combinations evolve/change, but why do some combinations persist for millions of years? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1404226906057-Y1LXLTHOJ7P3KFNJ6KYG/guppies2.jpg Research Maintaining Variation: Strong selection typically reduces genetic variation, yet some species are remarkably variable. What allows such polymorphism to persist? What features of environments or species allow the latter to ‘break these rules’ of variation despite strong selection? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1404226865031-Z7HQOSW907SCCHJ8NPJQ/Aspergillus+nidulans+with+a+clear+mutation.jpg Research Adaptation: Evolution can be envisioned as a 'hill-climbing' process on an adaptive landscape, with the ascent relying on the supply of genetic variation (including new mutations). What do landscapes look like and how stable are they? Are there few or many paths towards higher ground? Are paths predictable? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1404226819472-LV6R5OSY9QV6YUZH0VD9/salticids3.jpg Research Ecology, Environment and Life History: Individuals vary in their ability to acquire resources and in how they allocate these. This issue is central to understanding the evolution of life history traits/strategies. How does environmental variation influence trait expression? How do populations adapt to new environments? http://www.davidpunzalan.com/the-ambush-bug-page daily 0.75 2020-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1434489833511-MOYJNOFZY8MN76YI5RYI/image-asset.jpeg Ambush Bugs CLASSIFICATION. Ambush bugs (subfamily Phymatinae) belong to the Order Heteroptera (True Bugs) and the Family Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs). For real expertise on taxonomy of Assassin Bugs (including Ambush Bugs) check with my colleague, Christiane Weirauch at University of California Riverside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1434489125023-TW31FVRN2YOIASJHALZW/image-asset.jpeg Ambush Bugs HABITS. These bugs are sit-and-wait predators. They hide among flowers and use their powerful claw-like forelimbs to capture other insects. They have a rostrum (sucking mouthparts), with which they inject paralyzing and digestive enzymes into their prey. They then use this straw-like organ to drink up the insect "soup". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1434488974799-U8ATWLC3HPW2GRTFYGD0/Life_cycle_small.jpg Ambush Bugs LIFE CYCLE. Phymata americana has one generation per year. Eggs are laid on plant material in the fall and survive through the winter. Nymphs hatch in the early summer and 5 molts (instars) later, they emerge as adult bugs. Ambush bugs are predaceous at all stages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1434489236593-ZLZFJ3TSV62XCZA4GU1K/image-asset.jpeg Ambush Bugs MATING BEHAVIOUR. Adult males and females are frequently found in the characteristic "coupled" position shown in this picture. From this position they engage in a number of courtship behaviours while (presumably) guarding their potential mate from other males. From this position, bugs communicate using stridulatory (vibrational) signals. If courtship is successful, bugs copulate in a sideways position. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1434490455919-VPGZNNIE6IQX1M6P1VID/image-asset.jpeg Ambush Bugs DIVERSITY. There are over 100 species in the genus Phymata. As you can see from this picture of 7 species and subspecies, size and colour differences between females (two left columns) and males (two right columns) are quite common. We don't yet fully understand the evolutionary causes of these sex- and species-differences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1434489751313-F0XDGQT48ELLR96X5UO4/image-asset.jpeg Ambush Bugs SEXUAL DIMORPHISM. In one species (P. americana), the sexes are quite different in size and in the degree of dark colouration. In this species, dark male colouration is advantageous for mating. Curiously, this advantage stems from thermoregulatory benefits (darker males have greater mate searching success). http://www.davidpunzalan.com/teaching daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1507134869342-R8YOV32CPSGCZACZ7WZF/bombyliid1.jpg Teaching & Students - BIOL 184 - Evolution and Biodiversity (co-taught with Greg Beaulieu, Patrick von Aderkas & Katy Hind) BIOL 184 - Evolution and Biodiversity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1578001655875-NA4NSWGFKX17QZ96QGW6/IMG_20150613_152430844.jpg Teaching & Students BIOL 186 - Physiology and Cell Biology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1501335423528-A5YJ3640JV6Z6U82NP57/mantis2.JPG Teaching & Students BIOL 150A - Modern Biology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1501335497805-070BK56P9XCIDO6JBJ7R/swallowtail_cat2.jpg Teaching & Students BIOL 248 - Topics in Organismal Biology (formerly) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1578000732997-YBACCROB9C20IDKQAMJX/20180809_165023.jpg Teaching & Students - BIOL 307- Chordate Zoology BIOL 307 - Chordate Zoology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1592341498026-6P85DM1YUBM5FTGQIZF7/with_bfhornet3.jpg Teaching & Students BIOL 330 - Study Design and Data Analysis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/16d57d37-3d85-493e-8e43-7b6b941411b1/31967.jpg Teaching & Students - Averyl Shifflett (Directed Studies) is the lab troglophile (look it up, if you don’t know what that means). When not spelunking on weekends—naturally—she is studying cave crickets (which are not restricted to caves, apparently), and the environmental predictors of their geographical distribution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/eaf603b3-8879-4eca-84ba-b9f86dcbcc69/Screen+Shot+2026-01-20+at+9.59.58+AM.png Teaching & Students - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/81d8b6fa-8b92-425f-a43a-f312ea6e1db2/Punzalan_Lab_Pic.jpg Teaching & Students - Lily Forsyth (Directed Studies) is studying host fidelity/breadth in commensal marine scaleworms. She is equally at home on the prairies (from where she originates) and in the ocean (she dives). She admits to now having scaleworms make cameos in her dreams—you’re welcome, Lily! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/b4096405-f1be-4513-aa8a-9a86749e6116/IMG_3784.jpg Teaching & Students - Nicole Cozos (Directed Studies) is studying shell preference in hermit crabs. In doing so, she has gotten pretty proficient at using a Dremel press to drill holes into gastropod shells. She (a marine bio student, mind you) is learning that the ocean has food in it—I have so much to teach! her!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/e8805746-eae6-48ee-9b60-38e71cf17aa1/IMG_5916.PNG Teaching & Students - Zach Loland (Directed Studies) studied UV tolerance and thermal adaptations in ambush bugs. Just like one of the bug populations he works on, he is repping the Okanagan. When not nuking bugs with UV rays and counting eggs, he is shredding local dirt trails on his bike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/f36f65ae-7687-4b82-a5d9-2d6be0a1288e/IMG-20250808-WA0005.jpg Teaching & Students - Esteban Pérez Andresen (Directed Studies) is studying divergence between two ambush bug species, in their behavioural responses to solar radiation, according to their thermal niches. Although his research involves insects, his real true love is kangaroos! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/ead40181-fc68-4116-aa57-690b82cb9e8b/IMG_5138.jpeg Teaching & Students - Crow Martens (Mentee, FG program) is interested in marine biology as well as ecological restoration. More specifically, I’d say that their passions actually are: 1) Giant Pacific Octopus 2) Collecting and pickling dead vertebrates 3) Carrots Not necessarily in that order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/3e4c4c0a-f694-4b46-b1d9-d01491d00013/Screenshot+2025-08-20+at+1.57.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Teaching & Students - Klara Moon (Research Assistant) helped set up some lab experiments and build the newest incarnation of the Predatron 3000. Her primary role in the lab was keeping bugs and spiders alive, though her true passion is marine conservation. She’s not a fan of radicchio (which is fair), but loves fennel (which is wack!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/ba84672c-af90-476f-8933-8b7749650f99/LFSportrait+copy.jpg Teaching & Students - Liam Singh (Directed Studies) has been studying hybridization in gulls long before he met me, and his project quantified phenotype differences between parent species and their hybrids. He is a hardcore bird nerd though he’s pretty good all around with his nature, including insects, which is the only reason I let him hang around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/2673207b-75c3-4131-a26c-2353185c26f8/IMG_1202.jpg Teaching & Students - Sarah Johnson (Directed Studies) studied the role of abiotic factors in generating sex-specific selection, and its potential consequences for extreme sex ratio variation in splashpool copepods. When not lifeguarding on weekends, apparently she plays around on Microsoft Excel—for fun (!?!). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/2deead51-58e9-4fd0-9b95-d65936b5726f/image0.jpeg Teaching & Students - Olivia Osborne (Directed Studies) worked on conflicting ecological demands on fern gametophyte vs sporophyte generations. Definitely a new dimension for me—and we’ll see if I have finally bit off more than I can scientifically chew. She also knows a surprising amount about soundtracks for a certain (ahem) ‘genre’ of film [‘woww-chicka-woww-woww’] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/250d480a-7e3c-4e69-8553-f9ee058bd107/image0.jpeg Teaching & Students - Michaela Onasick (Directed Studies) investigated the feeding preferences of Banana Slugs for various mushroom species, and how this might influence the dispersal of mushroom spores. As glamorous as it may sound, a lot of the work involved way too much time inspecting slug poop under a microscope :| https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/5c5665f0-e93c-4604-901b-b7eb4f01c4bd/DSCN3927.jpg Teaching & Students - Lily Ahern (Directed Studies) studied kelp & decorator crab evolution and behaviour. As if she hadn’t suffered enough already, she holds the record for most courses taken with me (this was her sixth—the poor soul!). Fun fact: she adorns her room (and car) with kelp crab carapaces. To be clear, she was a crab freak even before she joined the lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/7556b4a9-cc7b-4613-ac7c-57d2e8011506/IMG_2135.jpg Teaching & Students - Shayden Younker (Directed Studies) studied tent caterpillars and their parasitoids. When not immersed in entomological pursuits, he bounced at a local bar, (I imagine) using his cowboy boots to deliver roundhouse kicks to the faces of unruly club-goers, a la Swayze (not Gyllenhaal) in ‘Roadhouse’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/b3d3b3d8-8bc9-4761-adcd-20ebb1c1cd5c/ShellsPS-3.jpg Teaching & Students - Shelley Russell (Directed Studies) studied the impacts of ‘ghost fishing’, via bycatch from abandoned shrimp, prawn, and crab traps. I aspire to be like her one day, in having fly-fishing & spot-prawning chops, as well as my own boat. Whaaat—my students have boats? Being a professor is obviously the wrong gig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/c9c306d3-0368-45e6-b49c-e424c27e5a0d/IMG_7198.jpg Teaching & Students - Kea McKay (Directed Studies) is interested in sexual selection and sexual conflict in nudibranchs. Which species? I dunno—all of them! Kea also happens to be my ‘pusha’ when it comes to marine bio merch. Check out her Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Squiddllr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/de5cae44-d38d-412b-a65b-5c1bda9351e9/DSCN1853.JPG Teaching & Students - Paula Mali (VKURA, Directed Studies) is our friendly-neighbourhood spider girl. She did two stints in the lab, studying the social behaviour and life history of intertidal jumping spiders. One of the things she has taught me is that a competition swimming pool is a balmy 26ºC, which fully explains why I’m such a wimp in the (much colder) ocean in the PNW https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/5bb4946f-1ce5-4ab9-bdbb-8e2bd28a9a9c/MegT.jpg Teaching & Students - Meg Thompson (Directed Studies) studied the interaction between kelp physiological processes and environmental conditions. She arrived with some impressive skills, knowing how to handle ROVs, underwater cameras, and hydrophones. She is also a scuba instructor, which is handy for when I (as a novice snorkel/dive guy) inevitably do something stupid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/e6d4ff91-c451-49f3-8310-11574e44b43c/MattB_2.jpg Teaching & Students - Matt Bakken (Directed Studies) studied the effect of artificial light at night on habitat choice and settlement in marine macroinvertebrate communities. In addition to loving all things marine, he is an avid herp-o-phile. Don’t ask him where he spent his student loans, or why he always has a bottle of (wetsuit) lube handy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/ad27fb4a-b074-4135-ae57-fd8cb8050b76/mariano2.jpg Teaching & Students - Mariano Garcia-Barandiaran (Directed Studies) studied the host preference and phenotypic (colour) plasticity of a marine worm, symbiotic with various invertebrates including sea stars and keyhole limpets. He is evidently impervious to cold water and he promises to teach me how to catch some flounder/sole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/5e1ccb4d-241b-4252-9926-5e3d47f35931/DSCN0105.JPG Teaching & Students - Alastair Baird (Directed Studies) studied evolutionary divergence and sexual dimorphism of raptorial forelimb allometry in ambush bugs. Don’t let him ‘ambush’ you in badminton, or with his profound knowledge of the things to do in Nanaimo! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/16a18b97-f201-4707-a719-12c3fc82106e/DSCN0791.JPG Teaching & Students - Marco Joly (VKURA) worked on the reproductive behaviours of adult intertidal jumping spiders. In addition to unraveling some of the weird behaviours and ecology of these improbable critters, you can find him biking or piloting planes! He is currently enrolled in the Biochemistry and Microbiology program at UVic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/72611f75-c09f-4822-a305-948d4a7f8d76/PXL_20210823_010734827_2.jpeg Teaching & Students - Devin Hentschel (Honours Thesis) was the full time babysitter of teenaged intertidal jumping spiders, which evidently refuse to grow up, and are not even as angry or angsty as we’d hoped. He also found that the spiders, like us people in Victoria, are oblivious to the idea of winter. He is now working as an environmental consultant in Vancouver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1599690098988-FC5BJ1LKP5DIJ5E16MSX/VickiZ.jpg Teaching & Students - Vicki Zhang (Honours Thesis) worked on ambush bug biogeography, and somehow managed to make it look like I know the first thing about climate change. When she’s not getting buff, training for dragon boat races, she’s doing her PhD in arctic ecology at U of Toronto Mississauga. She has the distinction of being the only person I know who got a firearms license before a driver’s license. [Her website here]. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1599690026023-VLIUEBXP35S666WOBNU2/JuliaF.jpeg Teaching & Students - Julia Fang (Thesis Project & NSERC USRA) has worked on several projects including ambush bug life history evolution and reproductive interference in bean beetles. In addition to her scientific advances, she has recently discovered that turkey is actually delicious. She completed her Master of Forest Conservation Biology at U of T and is enrolled in the dentistry program at U of T. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1599691422940-AULIVUH892H9RLZT3YN9/WillC.jpg Teaching & Students - William Chen (Thesis Project & Research Assistant)—when not Judo-throwing, rabbit wrassling, or learning Ontario fishing regulations—worked on pre-zygotic mating isolation [his 2019 poster here] and locomotory performance in ambush bugs. He is now enrolled in the optometry program at U of Waterloo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1600043920423-EXCWVQYM1E5T24K8F4AG/smooj.png Teaching & Students - Saanmugi Shanmugadasan (Research Assistant) did research on condition dependent sexual conflict in water striders, and ambush bug ecology. She holds the record for most Tim Hortons ‘iced caps’ consumed in a single field season, and managed to not die of food poisoning despite storing Eggo waffles in the fridge (not freezer) all summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1599690062072-O8A414EQ4S5V6H62RG4U/NikolD.JPG Teaching & Students - Nikol Dimitrov (Research Assistant) worked on sexually antagonistic morphology in water striders, and has the unique (unfortunate?) claim of being the only student at UofT who managed to take/tolerate every course I taught there. She has recently completed an MSc in ecology at U of T and works for the Nature Conservancy of Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1600045617261-BHOJ5XTOYIHRR2Y8JDTO/Jenna2.png Teaching & Students - Jenna Cardoso (WorkStudy) worked on ambush bug growth and development, while piloting/troubleshooting the infamous ‘Predatron 3000’. Later she completed a Master of Forest Conservation degree at UofT, which she has used to master her gardening skillz. She also has a puppy named ‘Stevie’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1600045305440-1M9DJFDAC9KYBUI8BKDH/April.png Teaching & Students - April Patmanathan (Workstudy) studied the vibratory signals & courtship behaviour of ambush bugs. If you have been through the Toronto International Airport, there’s a chance that she knows about the disturbing things you pack in your luggage. After an MSc at UTSC, she is fulfilling her lifelong dream of working on polar bear conservation with the Canadian Wildlife Service! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1600281400597-1UC4ASTIWEUZ2D36P8W3/lCojL4gd.jpg Teaching & Students - Roegan Vetro (Research Assistant) did research on ambush bug immunity, as well as sexual conflict in water striders. He also taught me the weird and diverse habits of Neuropterans. He went on to do his MSc in applied entomology at U of Amsterdam to get in touch with his Euro roots, and to feed his habit for world travel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1600044431900-2SO95ZRRSLNGKUKBNLCJ/IMG_20160728_092928066.jpg Teaching & Students - Andrew Williams (Honour’s Thesis) worked on viability selection and predatory morphology in ambush bugs. He went on to do his MSc in environmental sciences at Toronto Metropolitan U, and is probably swimming in mad cheddah (funding $), via the biological version of the ‘Green Rush’. http://www.davidpunzalan.com/xcanada19 daily 0.75 2023-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1566132229715-W4V9B2YZPL09SZFWC4B8/20190730_162953.jpg Cross-Canada 2019 - X-Canada 2019 Toronto-to-Victoria Click the LINKS below to navigate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1566152347550-NC1F0H1RFB8STUKW3U8U/Screen+Shot+2019-08-18+at+11.17.08+AM.png Cross-Canada 2019 http://www.davidpunzalan.com/advice-for-undergraduates daily 0.75 2025-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1570065154684-RTN3VWF2ECDFPSI9WFJY/Undergrad+research.png For Undergrads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/a916c41b-c212-4f0a-8968-0e0e18e9f056/Example+reference.jpg For Undergrads - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://www.davidpunzalan.com/victoriaxmas daily 0.75 2021-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1577166672688-YXK9NC63XED2PJJDNUAZ/20191213_094423.jpg Winter in Victoria 2019 - This is what I see on my morning commute: Inner Harbour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1577166757180-XFF4NJE4CA4KI61XCS6O/20191029_184140.jpg Winter in Victoria 2019 - … and on the way home.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1577167222853-AYGGQWXYKRHX250JP6U4/20191223_170809.jpg Winter in Victoria 2019 - Inner Harbour at night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1577168617317-8T76ZX4HKZMNH91CLRS5/20191129_190106.jpg Winter in Victoria 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53b2ba4ee4b0bdd9256161c1/1577334159381-M2HQXQZI00YC587E7TBG/20191225_125233.jpg Winter in Victoria 2019 - Life is good..at sea Luna was built for life on the island. 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