Latest News
January · 2018
PhD position available!
October · 2017
Zahida Sultanova gets 4yr PhD Fellowship!
Who we are
Behaviour and Evolution (Pau Carazo’s research group) is part of the Ethology lab at Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (University of Valencia). We are generally interested in the evolution and function of behaviour, and in the role that behaviour plays as a spearhead of evolutionary change. Currently, our main line of research is on biotic and abiotic factors modulating the intensity of sexual selection and sexual conflict, and its consequences in terms of population viability.
We are driven more by the questions than by the use of a particular organism, so we work or have worked with a variety of systems. Our current main model organism for work on sexual conflict, kin selection, behavioural plasticity and ageing is the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). We also study Podarcis lizards, a fantastic system to ask questions about the evolution of communication. Our unit was set up in 2015, so we are young and enthusiastic!
Recent Publications
Ageing via perception costs of reproduction magnifies sexual selection
García-Roa, R., Serra, M. & Carazo, P. 2018. Proc Roy Soc B, In press.
Interactions between the sexual identity of the nervous system and the social environment mediate lifespan in D. melanogaster
Fintham, E. O., Yoshida, T., Smith, S., Pavlou, H.J., Goodwin, S. F., Carazo, P. & Wigby, S. 2018. Proc Roy Soc B, In press.
Why blue tongue? A potential UV-based deimatic display in a lizard
Badiane, A.*, Carazo, P.*, Price-Rees, S.J., Ferrando-Bernal, M. & Whiting, M. J.* 2018. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 72, 104|link.
Chemosensory enrichment as a simple and effective way to improve the welfare of captive lizards
Londoño, C., Bartolomé, A., Carazo, P. & Font, E. 2018. Ethology, 124, 674-683|link.
Colouration in male blue-throated keeled lizards (Algyroides nigropunctatus): Evidence for ultraviolet reflectance of throat and lateral patches
Badiane, A., Carazo, P. & Font, E. 2018. Herpetological Journal, 28, 39-42.|link.
The “unguarded-X” and the genetic architecture of lifespan: Inbreeding results in a potentially maladaptive sex-specific reduction of female lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster
Sultanova, Z., Andiç, M. & Carazo, P. 2018. Evolution, Published online.