PhD student at ToL Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge. RI evolution, repeated behavioural adaptation and speciation in Southeast-asian phytophagous ladybird beetles 🐞 & chromosomal evolution in 🪲 . www.evobioid.com | 🇮🇩 in 🇬🇧 | MEME alumnus
Very excited to see the first chapter of my PhD out on bioRxiv! It began as a rotation project and became a pivotal part of my PhD on beetles, adding a complementary macroevolutionary perspective to my second chapter on early-stage speciation in Indonesian herbivorous ladybird beetles.
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology338 coleopteran genomes reveal exceptional rearrangement variation compared to other insect orders https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.17.739156v1
Out now in @ecol-evol.bsky.social . An article doi.org/10.1002/ece3... based on my undergrad thesis at Biology Dept., IPB University, Indonesia, almost six years ago. It asks how quickly additional RI barriers evolve when extremely divergent host-plant specialisation exists among 🐞 host races.
The Evolution of Reproductive Isolation Beyond a Strong First Barrier in Speciation Between Micro‐Allopatric Host Races of a Phytophagous Ladybird Beetle, <fi>Henosepilachna diekei</fi>Reproductive isolation often accumulates unevenly during speciation, but when an early ecological barrier such as host-associated habitat isolation is already very strong, it remains unclear whether,...doi.org