Professor
Department of Zoology, Biodiversity Research Centre
Contact Details
otto@zoology.ubc.ca
Website(s)
Sally Otto is a Professor in the Department of Zoology and the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. In her research, she seeks to understand how evolutionary processes have generated the wondrous diversity of biological features observed in the natural world. Why is it that some species reproduce asexually, while most reproduce sexually? Why do some organisms have large genomes while closely related species have small ones? Why do some species choose to mate with very similar partners, while others avoid them? These are some of the fundamental questions that her research has aimed to resolve, using a combination of mathematical theory, statistical inference, and evolutionary experiments.
Research Themes
Evolutionary biology | Genomes | Plant evolution | Ecology
Geographical Area(s) of Research
Canada