Lynda F. Delph

Evolutionary biologist Lynda Delph is a Distinguished Professor of Biology and a member of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Program at Indiana University - Bloomington. She works mainly with flowering plants. Her areas of focus include adaptation and speciation in plants, diversity of plant breeding systems and gender dimorphism, sexual dimorphism, and sex-chromosome evolution. Her research includes a combination of field experiments, greenhouse crosses, and molecular genomics. Delph is especially interested in the evolution of sexual dimorphism -- what selective pressures act to create differences between males and females, and how the genetic basis of these differences either constrain or facilitate evolution.

Delph's research has been funded by more than 10 National Science Foundation grants over three decades. Delph has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. She is co-editor of Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships (New Zealand and Finland) and a Fulbright Specialist Grant (France). 

Delph received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her Ph.D. from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.