Matthew Gage, an evolutionary ecologist whose work informed the fields of sexual selection, sperm competition, and gamete biology, has died. While the cause of his death has not been publicly released, an obituary written by his University of East Anglia colleagues and published in Animal Behavior noted that Gage downplayed his illness and continued working until shortly before his death on January 15 of this year. He was 55.
“Matt never left anything to chance and was a thorough experimentalist and converted those experimental findings into compelling, interesting stories,” Ramakrishnan Vasudeva, a postdoc in Gage’s lab, tells The Scientist in an email. “I vividly remember even during [his] final experiment, [in] late 2021, his enthusiasm never waned through those difficult final days, his curiosity was always shining through, studying the finer details from our results.”
Gage spent decades of his career using fish and insects—particularly the red flour beetle (Tribolium ...
