Jen Moss

Major Field of Interest

Behavioral Evolution and Reproductive Ecology

Current Research

Research in the Moss Lab leverages integrative approaches to explore the evolution and ecology of behavior, as manifest through the lens of sexual and parental behaviors. Projects involve native amphibians and reptiles and span two major themes:

• How sex differences in behavior shape demographic (i.e., reproductive rates) and evolutionary (i.e., sexual selection) responses to climate change
• How diversity in animal parental behaviors and their underlying mechanisms (i.e., hormonal, neural, and genetic pathways) informs our understanding of the evolutionary origins and diversification of parental care