Publications

"The Roles of Drift and Selection on Short Stamen Loss in Arabidopsis thaliana along an Elevational Gradient in the Spanish Pyrenees." bioRxiv 

"Genetic architecture of spatially complex color patterning in hybrid Mimulus." bioRxiv 

"A multi-generational Turing model reproduces transgressive petal phenotypes in hybrid Mimulus" Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 2023

"Temporal matches between monarch and milkweed population changes over the past 25,000 years" Current Biology 2023

"Population genetics of transposable element load: a mechanistic account of observed overdispersion" PLoS One 2022

"Population genomic and historical analysis suggests a global invasion by bridgehead processes in Mimulus guttatus." Communications Biology, 2021

"Endosperm-based incompatibilities in hybrid monkeyflowers" Plant Cell, 2021

"The regulatory network for petal anthocyanin pigmentation is shaped by the MYB5a/NEGAN transcription factor in Mimulus." Genetics, 2021

Range-wide variation in common milkweed traits and its effect on larvae of the monarch butterfly. AJB 2021

Fine-scale spatial structuring of genotypes and phenotypes in natural populations of Asclepias syriaca 2020

The case for the continued use of the genus name Mimulus for all monkeyflowers. Taxon. 2019

Reply to Wepprich and Ries et al.: Alternative methods do not provide support for the contribution of GM crops to monarch declines. PNAS. 2019

Likelihood ratio test(s) for homeolog expression bias. BMC Bioinformatics. 2019

Monarch butterfly and milkweed declines substantially predate the use of genetically modified crops. PNAS  2019

Origin and Evolution of the Octoploid Strawberry Genome. Nature Genetics 2019

Long and short term responses of Asclepias species to manipulation of fire, grazing, and nutrient treatments. AJB 2018

Selective trade-offs maintain alleles underpinning complex trait variation in plants. Science. 2018

The causes and consequences of subgenome dominance in hybrids and recent polyploids. New Phytologist. 2018

Subgenome dominance in an interspecific hybrid, synthetic allopolyploid, and a 140-year-old naturally established neo-allopolyploid monkeyflower.  The Plant Cell. 2017

 A Whole Transcriptome Approach to Evaluating Reference Genes for Quantitative Gene Expression Studies: A Case Study in Mimulus. G3:Genes, Genomes, Genetics 2017

Genetic variation and clonal diversity in introduced populations of Mimulus guttatus assessed by genotyping at 62 single nucleotide polymorphism loci. Plant Ecology & Diversity. 2017

 Geographic Variation of Plant Circadian Clock Function in Natural and Agricultural Settings. Journal of Biological Rhythms. 2016

Population structure and local selection yield high genomic variation in Mimulus guttatus. Molecular Ecology. 2016

 Strongly asymmetric hybridization barriers shape the origin of a new polyploid species and its hybrid ancestor. AJB 2016

Speciation by genome duplication: Repeated origins and genomic composition of the recently formed allopolyploid species Mimulus peregrinus. Evolution. 2015

Molecular basis for three-dimensional elaboration of the Aquilegia petal spur. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 2015

Genomics of invasion: diversity and selection in introduced populations of monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus). Molecular Ecology. 2014

Deep annotation of Populus trichocarpa microRNAs from diverse tissue sets. PloS One. 2012

How the cucumber tendril coils and overwinds. Science. 2012

Evolution of spur-length diversity in Aquilegia petals is achieved solely through cell-shape anisotropy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2011

Populus CEN/TFL1 regulates first onset of flowering, axillary meristem identity and dormancy release in Populus. The Plant Journal. 2010

Identification of conserved Aquilegia coerulea microRNAs and their targets. Gene. 2009