Publications

2023

Cai, H. and Des Marais, D.L. (2023). Digest: Multivariate genetic variation constrains adaptation to environmental changes during range expansion. Evolution, qpad141, https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpad141

Cai, H., Geiler-Samerotte, K., & Des Marais, D. L. (2023). Dissecting genetic correlation through recombinant perturbations: the role of developmental bias. bioRxiv, 2023-05.

Cai, H. and Des Marais, D.L. (2023), Revisiting regulatory coherence: accounting for temporal bias in plant gene co-expression analyses. New Phytologist, 238: 16-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18720

2022

Blumstein, M.J., Webster, S., Hopkins, R. and Des Marais, D.L., 2022. Genomics highlight an underestimation of the urban heat island effect on red oak phenology. bioRxiv.

Sancho, R., P. Catalan, B. Contreras-Moreira, T. E. Juenger, and D. L. Des Marais. Patterns of gene co-expression under water deficit treatments and pan-genome occupancy in Brachypodium distachyon. Molecular Ecology, 31(20), 5285-5306. [BioRxiv]

Vogel, C., Balázsi, G., Löwer, A., Jiang, C., Schmid, A. K., Sommer, M., … & Des Marais, D. L., Oster, H., Socolovsky, M. (2022). What differentiates a stress response from responsiveness in general?. Cell Systems, 13(3), 195-200.

Sancho, R., L. Inda, A. Diaz-Perez, D. L. Des Marais, S. Gordon, J. Vogel, B. Contreras-Moreira, and P. Catalan. 2022. Tracking the ancestry of known and ‘ghost’ homeologous subgenomes in model grass Brachypodium polyploids. The Plant Journal. [BioRxiv]

2021

Mueller, U. G., T. E. Juenger, M. Kardish, M. Carlson, K. Burns, C. Smith, and D. L. Des Marais. 2021. Artificial Selection on Microbiomes To Breed Microbiomes That Confer Salt Tolerance to Plants. mSystems 6(6): e01125-21. DOI: 0.1128/mSystems.01125-21.

Decena M.A., S. Galvez-Rojas, F. Agostini, R. Sancho, B. Contreras-Moreira, D. L. Des Marais, P. Hernández, and P. Catalán. 2021. Comparative Genomics, Evolution, and Drought-Induced Expression of Dehydrin Genes in Model Brachypodium Grasses. Plants 10: 2664.

Monroe, J., Cai, H. and Des Marais, D.L., 2021. Diversity in non-linear responses to soil moisture shapes evolutionary constraints in Brachypodium. G3 Genes| Genomes| Genetics 11.12 (2021): jkab334.

Palacio-Mejía, J.D., Grabowski, P.P., Ortiz, E.M., Silva-Arias, G.A., Haque, T., Des Marais, D.L., Bonnette, J., Lowry, D.B. and Juenger, T.E., 2021. Geographic patterns of genomic diversity and structure in the C4 grass Panicum hallii across its natural distribution. AoB Plants, 13(2), p.plab002.

2020

Lundgren, M.R. and D.L. Des Marais. 2020. Life history variation as a model for understanding trade-offs in plant–environment interactions. Current Biology 30: 180-189.

Guilherme Pereira, C. and D.L. Des Marais. 2020. The genetic basis of plant functional traits and the evolution of plant-environment interactions. International Journal of Plant Sciences 181: 56-74. [PDF]

2019

Kalladan. R., J.R. Lasky, S. Sharma, M.N. Kumar, T.E. Juenger, D.L. Des Marais, and P.E. Verslues. 2019. Natural variation in 9-cis-epoxycartenoid dioxygenase 3 and ABA accumulation. Plant Physiology 179: 1620-1631. [PDF]

2017

Gordon, S.P., B. Contreras-Moreira, D. Woods, D.L. Des Marais, and 21 others. 2017. Extensive gene content variation in the Brachypodium distachyon pan-genome correlates with population structure. Nature Communications 8: 2184. [PDF]

Des Marais, D.L., J.R. Lasky, R. Guerrero, and S.V. Scarpino. 2017. Topological features of a gene co-expression network predicts patterns of natural diversity in environmental response. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20170914. [PDF]

Des Marais, D.L., J.R. Lasky, P.E. Verslues, T.Z. Chang, and T.E. Juenger. 2017. Interactive effects of water limitation and elevated temperature on the physiology, development, and fitness of diverse accessions of Brachypodium distachyon. New Phytologist 214: 132-144. [PDF]

2016

Des Marais, D.L. and T.E. Juenger. 2016. Brachypodium and the abiotic environment. In: Genetics and Genomics of Brachypodium. John Vogel, ed.. Springer Publishers. Pg. 291-313.

Des Marais, D.L., K. Hernandez, S. Razzaque, and T. E. Juenger. 2016. Quantitative trait loci associated with natural diversity in water use efficiency and response to soil drying in Brachypodium distachyon. Plant Science 252: 2-11. [PDF]

Campitelli, B.E., D.L. Des Marais, and T.E. Juenger. 2016. Ecological interactions and the fitness effects of water-use efficiency: Competition and drought alter the impact of natural MPK12 alleles in Arabidopsis. Ecology Letters 19: 424-434. [PDF]

Sack, L. et al. (D.L. Des Marais is 6th of 32 authors). 2016. Plant hydraulics as a central hub integrating plant and ecosystem function. Plant, Cell and the Environment 39: 2085-2094. [PDF]

2015

Des Marais, D.L., W.D. Skillern, and T.E. Juenger. 2015. Deeply diverged alleles in the Arabidopsis AREB1 transcription factor drive genome-wide differences in transcriptional response to the environment. Molecular Biology and Evolution 32: 956-969.

Des Marais, D.L. 2015. To betalains and back again: A tale of two pigments. New Phytologist 207: 939-941. [PDF]

2014

Des Marais, D.L., L.C. Auchincloss, E. Sukamtoh, J.K. McKay, T. Logan, J.H. Richards, and T.E. Juenger. 2014. Variation in MPK12 affects water use efficiency in Arabidopsis and reveals a pleiotropic link between guard cell size and ABA response. PNAS 111: 2836-2841. [PDF]

Lasky, J.R., D.L. Des Marais, D.B. Lowry, I. Povolotskaya, J.K. McKay, J.H. Richards, T.H. Keitt, and T.E. Juenger. 2014. Natural variation in abiotic stress responsive gene expression and local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31: 2283-2296. [PDF]

Gordon, S., H. Priest, D.L. Des Marais, and 15 others. 2014. Genome diversity in Brachypodium distachyon: deep sequencing of highly diverse inbred lines. Plant Journal 79: 361-374. [PDF]

2013

Des Marais, D.L., K. Hernandez, and T.E. Juenger. 2013. Genotype-by-environment interaction and plasticity: exploring genomic responses of plants to the abiotic environment. Annual Reviews in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 44: 5-29. [PDF]

2012

Des Marais, D.L., J.K. McKay, J.H. Richards, S. Sen, T. Wayne, and T.E. Juenger. 2012. Physiological genomics of response to soil drying in diverse Arabidopsis accessions. The Plant Cell 24: 893-914. [PDF]

Lasky, J.R., D.L. Des Marais, J.K. McKay, J.H. Richards, T.E. Juenger, and T.H. Keitt. 2012. Characterizing genomic variation of Arabidopsis thaliana: The roles of geography and climate. Molecular Ecology 21: 5512-5529. [PDF] Featured in Faculty of 1000

Kesari, R., J.R. Lasky, J.G. Villamor, D.L. Des Marais, Y.-J.C. Chen, T.-W. Liu, W. Lin, T.E. Juenger, and P.E. Verslues. 2012. Intron polymorphisms causing alternative splicing of P5CS1 underlie natural variation in Arabidopsis proline metabolism. PNAS 109: 9197-9202. [PDF]

Lu, S., H. Zhao, D.L. Des Marais, E.P. Parsons, X. Wen, X. Xu, D.K. Bangarusamy, G. Wang, O. Rowland, T.E. Juenger, R.A. Bressan, and M.A. Jenks. 2012. Arabidopsis ECERIFERUM9 encodes a regulator of cuticle metabolism and plant water status. Plant Physiology 159: 930-944. [PDF]

2010

Des Marais, D.L. and T.E. Juenger. 2010. Pleiotropy, plasticity and the evolution of plant abiotic stress tolerance. Annals NY Acad Sci 1206: 56-79. [PDF]

Des Marais, D.L. and M.D. Rausher. 2010. Parallel evolution at multiple levels in the origin of hummingbird pollinated flowers in Ipomoea. Evolution 64: 2044-2054. [PDF]

2008

Des Marais, D.L. and M.D. Rausher. 2008. Escape from adaptive conflict permits substrate specialization in a biosynthetic enzyme. Nature 454: 762-765. [PDF] Featured in Faculty of 1000

2007

Sweeney, A., D.L. Des Marais, Y.-E.A. Ban, and S. Johnsen. 2007. Evolution of a graded refractive index in squid lens. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4: 685-698. [PDF]

2003

Des Marais, D.L., A.R. Smith, D.M. Britton, and K.M. Pryer. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of extant horsetails, Equisetum, based on chloroplast DNA sequence data (trnL-F and rbcL).  International Journal of Plant Science 164: 737-751. [PDF]