Senior Lecturer
Evolutionary Developmental Biology Research GroupSinclair Building, School of Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK
Office: GIP-S3.08d
tel: +44(0)1865483244
email 1: casper_j_breuker(at)yahoo.co.uk
email 2: cbreuker(at)brookes.ac.uk
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Current Research Interests
(collaborators are listed on the right) 
- Sperm competition, phenotypic plasticity in a social environment, and evolution of male sexual traits through differential allocation in the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea.
- Conflicting selection, developmental compartimentalization and phenotypic plasticity: using male secondary traits in Nauphoeta cinerea and butterflies
- Integrating evo-devo of butterfly wing patterning into an ecological framework
- Flight performance in Pararge aegeria butterflies
- The effects of environmental heterogeneity during the larval and pupal stage on patterns of developmental and morphological integration in the wings of the speckled wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria
- Evolutionary genetics of the interaction between the flea beetle Phyllotreta nemorum and its host plants.
- Identification of genetic factors involved in developmental buffering mechanisms in Drosophila melanogaster.
- The relationship between canalization and developmental stability
- Dispersal and functional morphology in Melitaea cinxia and Pararge aegeria



