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Personal profile
Biography
I have an Honours degree in Zoology from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD from the University of Liverpool. Since leaving 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
Graduate Research Co-ordinator for the School of Animal Biology.
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 have received ARC funding (starting 2017) to develop an empirical understanding of anisogamy.
Teaching overview
3rd Year Behavioural Ecology
3rd Year Evolutionary Genetics
2nd Year Conservation Biology
1st Year 'The Darwinian Revolution'
3rd Year Evolutionary Genetics
2nd Year Conservation Biology
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.
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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Projects 2000 2019
An empirical understanding of the evolution of anisogamy and the sexes
Australian Research Council ARC
1/01/17 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Heritable Variation of the Heat Shock Response and Potential Adaptation of N. Depressus Embryos to High Nest Temperatures
Tomkins, J. & Tedeschi, J.
WA Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Attractions DBCA
1/07/17 → 30/06/18
Project: Research
Go8 European Fellowship 2013-14 Joseph Tomkins - Lukasz Michalczyk
1/01/14 → 31/12/15
Project: Research
Threshold traits: conditionality, instability and broken symmetry
Australian Research Council ARC
1/01/13 → 29/12/15
Project: Research
Research Output 1999 2018
Living with fire: Ecology and genetics of the dasyurid mammal Dasykaluta rosamondae
Hayes, G. L. 2018 (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
File
Triodia
fire ecology
mammals
Metatheria
arid zones
Positive size-speed relationships in gametes and vegetative cells of chlamydomonas reinhardtii; implications for the evolution of sperm
Seed, C. E. & Tomkins, J. L. Mar 2018 In : Evolution. p. 440-452Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
vegetative cells
gamete
Germ Cells
sperm
The effects of the social environment and physical disturbance on personality traits
Rudin, F. S., Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 1 Apr 2018 In : Animal Behaviour. 138, p. 109-121 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
physical disturbance
social environment
cricket
Gryllidae
acoustics
Using experimental divergence in competitive mating success to test sexual selection theory
Dugand, R. J. 2018 (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
File
sexual selection
genetic variation
artificial selection
quantitative genetics
inbreeding depression
Changes in dominance status erode personality and behavioral syndromes
Rudin, F. S., Tomkins, J. L. & Simmons, L. W. 1 Jan 2017 In : Behavioral Ecology. 28, 1, p. 270-279 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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, W. (Creator), Dryad Digital Repository, 29 Apr 2013
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.g6jm6, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.g6jm6
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: Heritable variation in heat shock gene expression: a potential mechanism for adaptation to thermal stress in embryos of sea turtles
Tedeschi, J. (Creator), Kennington, W. (Creator), Tomkins, J. (Creator), Berry, O. F. (Creator), Whiting, S. (Creator), Meekan, M. (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: 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