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Dr. Goggy Davidowitz, Assistant Research Scientist

Positions and Education
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 2002-present
Research Associate, Department of Biology, Duke University, 1999-2002
Research Associate, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1998-2002
Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (minor in Entomology), University of Arizona, 1998
M.Sc. in Zoology, Summa Cum Laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1989
B.Sc. in Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1986
Honors and Awards
Dean’s Fellowship, 1998
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1995
The Benjamin Eckstein Award for the best Masters of Science Degree in Zoology for 1990-1991, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1991

Research Interests

My broad area of interest is in ecological development: how organisms adjust developmental pathways in response to short-term environmental variation. Specifically, I am focusing on the developmental mechanisms by which insects translate variation in diet quality and temperature, two environmental factors with strong effects on life histories, into phenotypic variation in body size and development time, two traits highly correlated with fitness. The complexity of the traits and the developmental programs that regulate them have led me to develop a multidisciplinary research program. Currently, I am employing techniques from quantitative genetics, physiology, endocrinology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and elemental stoichiometry, combining both lab and field work.

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PubMed list of publications for Goggy Davidowitz
Selected Publications
  1. Davidowitz, G., L.J. D’Amico, and H.F. Nijhout. (2004). The effects of environmental variation on a mechanism that controls insect body size. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6:49-62.

  2. Davidowitz, G., L.J. D’Amico, and H.F. Nijhout. (2003). Critical weight in the development of insect body size. Evolution & Development 5:188-197.

  3. Nijhout, H. F. and G. Davidowitz. (2003). Developmental perspectives on phenotypic instability, canalization, and fluctuating asymmetry. In: Polak, M. (ed.) Developmental Instability (DI): Causes and Consequences. Oxford University Press.

  4. Davidowitz, G. (2002). Does precipitation variability increase from mesic to xeric biomes? Global Ecology and Biogeography 11:143-154.

  5. D’Amico, L.J., G. Davidowitz and H. F. Nijhout. (2001). The developmental and physiological basis of body size evolution in an insect. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 268:1589-1593.

  6. Davidowitz, G. (1999). Grasshoppers. in: A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert. S.J. Phillips and P.W. Comus (eds.), Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

  7. Davidowitz, G. and M.L. Rosenzweig (1998). The latitudinal gradient of species diversity among North American grasshoppers (Acrididae) within a single habitat: A test of the spatial heterogeneity hypothesis. Journal of Biogeography 25:553-560.

  8. Horwitz, L.K. and G. Davidowitz. (1992). Dental pathology of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 38: 111-123.Horwitz, L.K. and G. Davidowitz. (1992). Dental pathology of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 38: 111-123.
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