Profile

Career

2008 -	Teaching Fellow	Department of Biology, University of York
2002 - 2008	Post-doc	University of Liverpool
2002	PhD	University of Oxford
1995	BSc	University of Western Australia

Research

Overview

Although I am currently a teaching fellow, I maintain a keen interest in behavioural ecology research, with a primary focus on sexual selection. My work uses experimental and comparative methods to investigate the evolutionary consequences of mate choice and intrasexual competition among males.

Publications

Selected publications

Sherborne, A. L., Thom, M. D., Paterson, S., Jury, F., Ollier, W. E. R., Stockley, P., Beynon, R. J. & Hurst, J. L. (2007) The genetic basis of inbreeding avoidance in house mice. Current Biology 17: 2061-2066.

Thom, M. D., Stockley, P., Jury, F., Ollier, W. E. R., Beynon, R. J. & Hurst, J. L. (2008) The direct assessment of genetic heterozygosity through scent in the mouse. Current Biology 18: 619-623.