Welcome to the lab group of Professor Matthew Gage.
School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia (UEA).

Our primary interests are in reproduction, sexual selection and conflict, and especially the evolution of sperm form and function.

sperm-and-spermatheca

Research in the group uses a number of animal models (insects, fishes, mammals), in both field and laboratory studies to answer questions of the functional and adaptive significance of reproductive strategies and mechanisms.

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Team Tribolium

Using a model insect to answer big evolutionary questions.

Salmon

Controlled, replicated experiments in a wild species.

Another Dr emerges from the Gage lab

Last month Kris completed his PhD ‘impacts of heatwave conditions and temperature variation on reproduction in the insect model Tribolium castaneum’. It was a great opportunity to critically discuss the work within. In addition to the acknowledgements (photos below), thanks to the external examiner Prof. Klaus Fischer, the internal examiner Dr. Richard Davies, the chair…