Dessie Underwood
Associate Professor
Office: HSCI 144
Office Phone: 562 985-7475
E-Mail: dlunderw@csulb.edu
Reseach Page: http://www.csulb.edu/~dlunderw/EntomologyResearchLab/
Courses Taught:
- BIOL316 General Entomology
- BIOL350 General Ecology
- BIOL661 Seminar in Biology
Research interests: Insect behavioral ecology; plant-insect interactions; the evolution of cooperation, division of labor, and sex ratio; lepidopteran cytogenetics; chromosomal non-disjunction.
Current research: Division of labor in caterpillars of the social butterfly, Eucheira socialis (Pieridae) from Mexico; the mechanisms and evolutionary maintenance of a male-biased primary sex ratio in E. socialis; cytogenetics and digital image analysis of chromosome behavior during meiosis; abnormalities in sperm production in E. socialis.
