Department of Entomology

Laura Corley Lavine

2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology & Associate Research Faculty Member, School of Molecular Biosciences

Participating Faculty Member, Center for Integrated Biotechnology - WSU

Participating Faculty Member, Center for Reproductive Biology -  WSU


Education:

Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Entomology, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison , 1999 - 2001

Ph.D. Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky , 1999

M.S. Zoology, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University , 1995

B.S. Biology, Lander University , 1992


Selected Publications:

Emlen, D., Corley Lavine, L., and Ewen-Campen, B. 2007 On the origin and evolutionary diversification of beetle ‘horns’.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 8661-8668.

Emlen, D.J., Szafran, Q., Corley, L.S., and Dworkin, I.  2006.  Candidate genes for the development and evolution of beetle horns.  Heredity 97: 179-191.

Corley, L.S., Cotton, S., McConnell, E., Chapman, T., Fowler, K., and Pomiankowski, A. 2006. Highly variable sperm precedence in the stalk-eyed fly Teleopsis dalmanni. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6:53-59.

Donnell, D.M, Corley, L.S., Chen, G., and Strand , M.R. 2004.  Caste determination in a polyembryonic wasp involves inheritance of germ cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( USA ) 101: 10095-10100.

Harvey, J. A., Corley, L.S., and M. R. Strand. 2000. Competition induces adaptive shifts in caste ratios of a polyembryonic wasp. Nature 406: 183-186.

Corley, L.S. and A. J. Moore. 1999. Fitness of alternative modes of reproduction: developmental constraints and the evolutionary maintenance of sex. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266:471-476.

Panganiban, G., Irvine, S., Lowe, C., Roehl, H., Corley, L.S., Sherbon, S., Grenier, J., Fallon, J., Kimble, J., Walker, M., Wray, G., Swalla, B.J., Martindale, M., and S. B. Carroll. 1997. The origin and evolution of animal appendages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 94:5162-5166.


Articles about Corley’s Research

Washington State Magazine, "Darwin was just the beginning: a sampler of evolutionary biology at WSU" by Cherie Winner, p32-40.

Washington State Magazine, “Sex, food, and death” by Mary Aegerter, Summer 2002, p.12.

Science, July 23, 1999 “Development shapes evolution: Sex and the single cockroach” 285: 518-519.

Nature Science Update, December 17, 1999 “The opposite of sex” by Henry Gee.

 

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