Gita Kolluru
Gita R. Kolluru, Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Biological Sciences Department Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and SOCIAL Justice Committee
805-756-2819
gkolluru@calpoly.edu
33-370 office
53-105 lab
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Languages
English & Telugu
Education
B.Sc. (Honours) Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
M.A. Biology, University of California, Riverside
Ph.D. Biology, University of California, Riverside
Research Interests
- • Sexual selection
- Costs of mating and resulting trade-offs
- Behavior of livebearing (poeciliid) fishes
- phenotypic plasticity and geographic variation in mating tactics; evolution of mating behavior
Advising Interests
- Mating Behavior
- Aggressive behavior
- Costs of morphological, behavioral and physiological traits important in mating
- Host-parasite interactions
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