home news faculty undergraduate graduate staff seminars resources & links history intranet giving alumni

email:  gowaty@eeb.ucla.edu
phone:  310-206-2186
office:  Botany 114D
lab:  Life Sciences 4315

research interests:  Evolutionary ecology, evolution of behavior, sexual behavior, mating systems, sexual conflict, parental behavior, maternal effects, developmental plasticity, sex allocation, genetic parentage, ornithology

Education

B.A., Biology, Tulane University 1967
Ph.D., Zoology, Clemson University 1980

Research Interests

Selected Publications

Gowaty, P.A.. 2008. Reproductive Compensation Journal of Evolutonary Biology 21: 1189-1200 .

Guinan, Judith A., Patricia A. Gowaty, and Elsie K. Eltzrot. 2008. Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) The Birds of North America Online Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online [link].

Anderson, W.W., Y.-K. Kim, and P.A. Gowaty. 2007. Experimental constraints on female and male mate preferences in Drosophila pseudoobscura decrease offspring viability and reproductive success of breeding pairs Proccedings of the National Academy of Science 104: 4484-4488 .

Gowaty, P.A., W.W. Anderson, C.K. Bluhm, L.C. Drickamer, Y.-K. Kim, and A. Moore. 2007. The hypothesis of reproductive compensation and its assumptions about mate preferences and offspring viability Proceedings of the National Acacemy of Science 104: 15023-15027 .

Gowaty, P.A.. 2007. Perception bias, social inclusion and sexual selection: Power dynamics in science and nature Modern Controversies in Evolutionary Biology in Science and Technology in Society: From Space Exploration to the Biology of Gender University of Wisconsin Press 401-420 .

Snyder, B.F. and P.A. Gowaty. 2007. A reappraisal of Bateman's classic study of intrasexual selection Evolution 61: 2457-2468 [link].

Gowaty, P.A.. 2006. Beyond extra-pair paternity: individual constraints, fitness components, and social mating systems Essays on Animal Behavior: Celebrating 50 years of Animal Behaviour Cambridge University 221-256 .

Gowaty, P.A. and S.P. Hubbell. 2005. Chance, time allocation, and the evolution of adaptively flexible sex roles J. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45: 247-260 .

Bluhm, C.K. and P.A. Gowaty. 2004. Reproductive compensation for offspring viability deficits by female mallards Anas platyrbynchos Animal Behavior 68: 985-992 .

Bluhm, C.K. & P.A. Gowaty. 2004. Social constraints on female mate preferences in mallards Anas platyhynchos decrease offspring viability and mother productivity Animal Behaviour 68: 977-983 .