The University of Western Australia

Asst/Prof Paco Garcia-Gonzalez

Assistant Professor/Australian Research Fellow
Centre for Evolutionary Biology

Contact details

Address

Centre for Evolutionary Biology
The University of Western Australia (M092)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 1967

Fax

6488 1029

Email

paco.garcia@uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

http://www.ceb.uwa.edu.au/our_people/francisco_garciagonzalez

Qualifications

BSc MSc PhD Madrid

Key research

See http://www.ceb.uwa.edu.au/our_people/francisco_garciagonzalez

Publications

Simmons L. W. & Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2011. Experimental coevolution of male and female genital morphology. Nature Communications, 2:374.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Evans, J. P. 2011. Fertilization success and the estimation of genetic variance in sperm competitiveness. Evolution, 65: 746-756.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2011. Sexual Selection and Experimental Evolution. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Chichester. DOI:10.1002/9780470015902.a0022859.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2011. Good genes and sexual selection in dung beetles (Onthophagus taurus): Genetic variance in egg-to-adult and adult viability. PLoS ONE, 6:e16233.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2010. Male-induced costs of mating for females compensated by offspring viability benefits in an insect. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23: 2066-2075.

Fitzpatrick, J. L., Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Evans, J. P. 2010. Linking sperm length and velocity: the importance of intramale variation. Biology Letters, 6: 797-799.

Simmons, L. W., House, C. M., Hunt, J. & García-González, F. 2009. Evolutionary response to sexual selection in male genital morphology. Current Biology, 19: 1442-1446.

García-González, F. 2009. Evolución en acción: estudios de evolución experimental en el contexto de la selección sexual. In: Dopazo, H. and Navarro, A. (Eds). Adaptación y Evolución. 150 años después del Origen de las Especies. Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva-Obrapropia S. L., Valencia.

García-González, F. 2009. Selección sexual post-cópula y la evolución de la poliandria. En: Dopazo, H. and Navarro, A. (Eds). Adaptación y Evolución. 150 años después del Origen de las Especies. Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva-Obrapropia S. L., Valencia.

Binks, R. M., Lukehurst, S. S., García-González, F. & Evans, J. P. 2009. Characterization of microsatellite loci for the Australian sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma. Molecular Ecology Resources, 9: 1259-1261.

Simmons, L. W. & Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2008. Evolutionary reduction in testes size and competitive fertilization success in response to the experimental removal of sexual selection in dung beetles. Evolution, in press.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2008. The relative nature of fertilization success: implications for the study of post-copulatory sexual selection. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8:140. (open access: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/140)

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2008. Male genetic quality and the inequality between paternity success and fertilization success: consequences for studies of sperm competition and the evolution of polyandry. Evolution, 62:1653-1665.

Gomendio, M., Garcia-Gonzalez, F., Reguera, P. & Rivero A. 2008. Male egg-carrying in Phyllomorpha laciniata is favoured by natural not sexual selection. Animal Behaviour, 75:763-770.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2007. Paternal indirect genetic effects on offspring viability and the benefits of polyandry. Current Biology, 17: 32-36.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2007. Shorter sperm confer higher competitive fertilization success. Evolution, 61: 816-824. Link to PDF

Simmons, L. W. & Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2007. Female crickets trade offspring viability for fecundity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20: 1617-1623.

Evans, J. P., Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Marshall, D. J. 2007. Sources of genetic and phenotypic variance in sperm performance and larval traits in a sea urchin. Evolution, 61: 2832-2838.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F., Roldan, E. R. S., Ponz, F. & Gomendio, M. 2007. The adaptive significance of male egg carrying in the golden egg bug: defining research avenues. A reply to Härdling et al. Ecological Entomology 32: 578-581.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2005. The evolution of polyandry: intrinsic sire effects contribute to embryo viability. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 18:1097-1103.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Simmons, L. W. 2005. Sperm viability matters in insect sperm competition. Current Biology, 15: 271-275.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F., Núñez, Y., Ponz, F., Roldán, E. R. S., & Gomendio, M. 2005. Paternity analysis in the golden egg bug using AFLPs: do the males preferentially accept their true genetic offspring? Ecological Entomology, 30: 444-455.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2004. Infertile matings and sperm competition: the effect of "non sperm representation" on intraspecific variation in sperm precedence patterns. American Naturalist 164: 457-472.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. and Gomendio, M. 2004. Adjustment of copula duration and ejaculate size according to the risk of sperm competition in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata). Behavioral Ecology, 15:23-30.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F., Núñez, Y., Ponz, F., Roldán, E. R. S., and Gomendio, M. 2003. Sperm competition mechanisms, confidence of paternity, and the evolution of paternal care in the golden egg bug (Phyllomorpha laciniata). Evolution 57:1078-1088.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. and Gomendio, M. 2003. A field test of the intraspecific brood parasitism hypothesis in the golden egg bug (Phyllormorpha laciniata). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 53:332-339.

Simmons, L.W.; Wernham, J.; Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Kamien, D. 2003. Variation in paternity in the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus: no influence of sperm numbers or sperm length. Behavioral Ecology, 14: 539-545.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. and Gomendio, M. 2003. Oviposition site selection and oviposition stimulation by conspecifics in the golden egg bug (Phyllormorpha laciniata): implications on female fitness. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 53: 385-392.

Pitnick, S. & Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2002. Harm to females increases with male body size in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London series B, Biological Sciences, 269: 1821-1828.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Ornosa, C. 2001. Daily activity pattern of the wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) pollinators to the blackberries (Rubus ulmifolius Schott, 1818, Rosaceae) in Central Spain. Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, S6: 495-505. (In Spanish with English abstract).

Ornosa, C.; Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Ortíz-Sánchez, F. J. 2001. Some teratological cases in Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia, S6: 507-512. (In Spanish with English abstract).

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Ornosa, C. 1999. Territorial behaviour associated with the resource defense polygyny of Anthidium florentinum (Fabricius, 1775) (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología, 23: 41-51. (In Spanish with English abstract).

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Ornosa, C. 1998. Metrical relations in Anthidium florentinum (Fabricius, 1775), (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): a tool for studying its territorial behaviour. Entomofauna, 19 (9): 185-188.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Ornosa, C. 1998. Pollinators to the blackberries (Rubus ulmifolius Schott, 1818, Rosaceae) in Central Spain: composition and identity. Zoologia Baetica, 9: 69-90. (In Spanish with English abstract).


Other publications

Simmons, L. W. & Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2011. Seen one seen them all? More to genitalia than meets the eye. The Conversation. Published 6 July 2011.

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2011. Experimental evolution: life in the fast line. The Conversation. Published 18 April 2011.

Gomendio, M. & Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2005. ¿Quién se ocupa de las crías?. Quercus, 232: 46-51. (In Spanish. Natural history and Conservation journal).

Garcia-Gonzalez, F. 2002. The evolution of egg carrying in Phyllomorpha laciniata (Het., Coreidae): a behavioural, physiological and molecular approach to explain its adaptive significance in males and females. PhD Thesis, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid.

Funding received

See http://www.ceb.uwa.edu.au/our_people/francisco_garciagonzalez

Research profile

Research profile and publications