EMILIO
ROLAN ALVAREZ
CATEDRATICO/A DE UNIVERSIDAD TC
Department: Bioquímica, xenética e inmunoloxía
Centre: *Facultade de Bioloxía
Research center: CIM-UVigo
Campus: Vigo
Area: Genetics
Research group: Population Genetics and Cytogenetics
Email: rolan@uvigo.es
Personal web: http://evolucion.webs7.uvigo.es/
Doctor by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela with the thesis Estructura genética y selección sexual en poblaciones naturales de dos especies gemelas del género Littorina 1993. Supervised by Dr. Gonzalo Álvarez Jurado, Dr. Carlos Zapata.
I have done my research mostly on evolutionary ecology and population genetics of marine snails. My research focuses on causes of intraspecific variation mostly at very small scales at both phenotypic and molecular levels. Problems of special concern are the role of natural and sexual selection as well as the evolutionary mechanisms of speciation (evolution of reproductive isolation). I have been also involved in developing new statistics to estimate sexual selection and sexual isolation effects or correcting for multitest adjustment.