. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Robert M. Woollacott Professor of Biology Curator of Mamie Invertebrates Prof. Wbollacott's researc h focuses on aspects of marine invertebrate life history, such as synchronization of reproductive events and ecology and physiology of larvae Topics dI particular interest include larval dispersal and population connectivity, as well as human impacts on the distribution l marine organisms. Naomi E. Pierce Sidney A. and John Hessel Professor of Biology Curator of Entomology Prof. Pierce's primary research focuses on the behaviora
. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Robert M. Woollacott Professor of Biology Curator of Mamie Invertebrates Prof. Wbollacott's researc h focuses on aspects of marine invertebrate life history, such as synchronization of reproductive events and ecology and physiology of larvae Topics dI particular interest include larval dispersal and population connectivity, as well as human impacts on the distribution l marine organisms. Naomi E. Pierce Sidney A. and John Hessel Professor of Biology Curator of Entomology Prof. Pierce's primary research focuses on the behavioral ecology of species interactions, particularly cooperative interactions between plants and their pollinators, and symbioses between ants and many different organisms including bacteria, fungi, plants and caterpillars of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. Prof. Pierce is interested in how species associations such as parasitism and mutualism influence the evolutionary trajectories of each Some of this research is functional, searching for genes and/or pathways involved in the evolution of insect herbivory on the one hand, or plant resistance to pathogen/insect attack on the other. Other projects are comparative, seeking to understand the adaptive advantages of traits such as specialized diets in the Lepidoptera. Current grant-funded research is also investigating environmental and genetic influences in the evolution of social behavior in stingless bees. Prof. Pierce has also been engaged in reconstructing the evolutionary Tree of Life for ants, bees and butterflies, using the resulting molecular phytogenies to analyze life history evolution, geographic distributions and rates of diversification. In the MCZ entomology collections, Prof. Pierce has been involved in a project to digitize and photograph the butterflies. Recent grants have supported collection of ants of the Navajo Nation, as well as the development of a database of locality records and identificatton t
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