Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
I have an Honours degree in Zoology from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD from the University of Liverpool. I have had Research Fellowships in Australia and the UK. In the UK I spent 2000-2005 at the University of St Andrews and one year at the University of Exeter. At the University of Western Australia I was employed on fellowships from 1997 - 2000 and again from 2005 to 2011. I was an ARC Future Fellow from 2011-2015.
Roles and responsibilities
Research Committee Member.
Future research
My Future Fellowship Research was on the evolution of threshold traits and covered traits as diverse as mate-choice and polyandry to the spread of disease by ticks. This research is ongoing.
I have received ARC funding (starting 2017) to develop an empirical understanding of anisogamy. I am intrested in a breadth of subjects mostly centred around sexual selection, mutations and threshold evolution.
Teaching overview
Honours supervision
3rd Year Behavioural Ecology
3rd Year Evolutionary Processes
1st Year 'The Darwinian Revolution'
Research
My research is in sexual selection. I am particularly interested in the genetic architecture of sexually selected and life-history traits, allometry, phenotypic plasticity and developmental integration. I have a broad interest in threshold traits and their evolutionary quirks. I am currently developing methodologies for experimentally manipulating anisogamy.
Languages
I speak English, sometimes in hilarious accents. I speak Franglais and Spanglish with equal ease.
Keywords
- Allometry
- Alternative reproductive tactics
- Alternative strategies
- Genetic variation
- Inbreeding
- Sexual selection
- Threshold traits
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Network
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Research Output 1999 2019
Evaluating the genetic architecture of quantitative traits via selection followed by inbreeding
Dugand, R. J., Kennington, W. J. & Tomkins, J. L., 9 Apr 2019, In : Heredity. 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Inbreeding
Mutation
Body Size
Drosophila melanogaster
Gene Frequency
It's not all black and white: Investigating colour polymorphism in manta rays across Indo-Pacific populations
Venables, S. K., Marshall, A. D., Germanov, E. S., Perryman, R. J. Y., Tapilatu, R. F., Gede Hendrawan, I., Flam, A. L., Van Keulen, M., Tomkins, J. L. & Kennington, W. J., 1 Jan 2019, In : Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286, 1912, 20191879.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
melanism
Melanosis
Polymorphism
polymorphism
Color
Male responses to sperm competition when rivals vary in number and familiarity
Lymbery, S. J., Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W., 30 Jan 2019, In : Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286, 1895, 20182589.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
sperm competition
familiarity
Spermatozoa
Seed
kin recognition
Male semelparity and multiple paternity confirmed in an arid-zone dasyurid
Hayes, G. L. T., Simmons, L. W., Dugand, R. J., Mills, H. R., Roberts, J. D., Tomkins, J. L. & Fisher, D. O., 21 Apr 2019, In : Journal of Zoology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
semelparity
paternity
arid zones
Antechinus
litters (young animals)
Molecular evidence supports a genic capture resolution of the lek paradox
Dugand, R., Tomkins, J. & Kennington, W., 25 Mar 2019, In : Nature Communications. 10, 1359.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
paradoxes
Genes
Genome
genome
Mutation
Datasets
Chlamydomonas flow data files
Seed, C. (Creator), Tomkins, J. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 4 Oct 2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.57j1t, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.57j1t
Dataset
Data from: Contrasting effects of landscape features on genetic structure in different geographical regions in the ornate dragon lizard, Ctenophorus ornatus
Levy, E. (Creator), Tomkins, J. (Creator), Lebas, N. (Creator), Kennington, J. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 29 Apr 2013
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.g6jm6, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.g6jm6
Dataset
Data from: Heritable variation in heat shock gene expression: a potential mechanism for adaptation to thermal stress in embryos of sea turtles
Tedeschi, J. (Creator), Kennington, J. (Creator), Tomkins, J. (Creator), Berry, O. F. (Creator), Whiting, S. (Creator), Meekan, M. G. (Creator), Mitchell, N. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 7 Dec 2015
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.617vp, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.617vp
Dataset
Data from: Positive size-speed relationships in gametes and vegetative cells of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; implications for the evolution of sperm.
Seed, C. (Creator), Tomkins, J. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 2 Jan 2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2mk56, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.2mk56
Dataset
Data from: Towards an evolutionary understanding of questing behaviour in the tick Ixodes ricinus
Tomkins, J. (Creator), Aungier, J. (Creator), Hazel, W. N. (Creator), Gilbert, L. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 21 Oct 2014
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9p40s, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.9p40s
Dataset
Projects 2000 2019
- 9 Finished
An empirical understanding of the evolution of anisogamy and the sexes
1/01/17 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Go8 European Fellowship 2013-14 Joseph Tomkins - Lukasz Michalczyk
Tomkins, J. & Michalczyk, L.
1/01/14 → 31/12/15
Project: Research
Threshold traits: conditionality, instability and broken symmetry
1/01/13 → 31/12/15
Project: Research