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REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

2012

Benedict, B.G., J.L. Modliszewski, A.L. Sweigart, N.H. Martin, F.R. Ganders, and J.H. Willis. 2012. Mimulus sookensis (Phyrmaceae), a new allotetraploid species derived from Mimulus guttatus and Mimulus nasutus. Madrono. In press.

Lowry, D. B., C. C. Sheng, Z. Zhu, T. E. Juenger, B. Lahner, D. E. Salt, and J.H. Willis. 2012. Mapping of ionomic traits in Mimulus guttatus reveals Mo and Cd QTLs that colocalize with MOT1 homologues. PLoS ONE. 7:e30730. Full Text

Strasburg, J. L., N. A. Sherman, K. M. Wright, L. C. Moyle, J.H. Willis, and L. H. Rieseberg. 2012. What can patterns of differentiation across plant genomes tell us about adaptation and speciation? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 367:364-373. Full Text

Moran, E. V., J.H. Willis, and J. S. Clark. 2012. Genetic evidence for hybridization in red oaks (Quercus sect. Lobatae, Fagaceae). American Journal of Botany. 99:92-100. Abstract

Lowry, D. B., C. C. Sheng, J. R. Lasky, and J.H. Willis. 2012. Five anthocyanin polymorphisms are associated with an R2R3-MYB cluster in Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae). American Journal of Botany. 99:82-91. Abstract

2011

Magwene, P.M., J.H. Willis, and J.K. Kelly. 2011. The statistics of bulk segregant analysis using next generation sequencing. PLoS Computational Biology. 7:e1002255. Full Text

Scoville, A.G., Y.W. Lee, J.H. Willis, and J.K. Kelly. 2011. Explaining the heritability of an ecologically significant trait in terms of individual quantitative trait loci. Biology Letters. 7:896-898. Abstract

Anderson, J.T., J.H. Willis, and T. Mitchell-Olds. 2011. Evolutionary genetics of plant adaptation. Trends in Genetics. 27:258-266. Abstract

Cooley, A.M., J.L. Modliszewski, M.L. Rommel, and J.H. Willis. 2011. Gene Duplication in Mimulus Underlies Parallel Floral Evolution via Independent trans-Regulatory Changes. Current Biology. 21: 700-704. Abstract

2010

Lowry, D. B., and J. H. Willis. 2010. A widespread chromosomal inversion polymorphism contributes to a major life-history transition, local adaptation, and reproductive isolation. PLoS Biology. 8: e1000500. Full Text

Martin, N. H., and J. H. Willis. 2010. Geographical variation in postzygotic isolation and its genetic basis within and between two Mimulus species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 365:3469-2478. Full Text

Hall, M. C., D. B. Lowry, and J. H. Willis. 2010. Is local adaptation in Mimulus guttatus caused by trade-offs at individual loci? Molecular Ecology. 19:2739-2753. Abstract

Wu, C. A., D. B. Lowry, L. I. Nutter, and J. H. Willis. 2010. Natural variation for drought response traits in the Mimulus guttatus species complex. Oecologia. 162:23-33. Abstract

2009

Charlesworth, D., and J. H. Willis. 2009. The genetics of inbreeding depression. Nature Reviews Genetics. 10:783-796. Abstract

Cooley, A. M., and J. H. Willis. 2009. Genetic divergence causes parallel evolution of flower color in Chilean Mimulus. New Phytologist. 183: 729-739. Abstract

Lowry, D. B., M. C. Hall, D. E. Salt, J. H. Willis. 2009. Genetic and physiological basis of adaptive salt tolerance divergence between coastal and inland Mimulus guttatus. New Phytologist. 183: 776-788. Abstract

Scoville, A., Y. W. Lee, J. H. Willis, and J. K. Kelly. 2009. Contribution of chromosomal polymorphisms to the G-matrix of Mimulus guttatus. New Phytologist. 183: 803-815. Abstract

2008

Lowry, D. B., R. C. Rockwood, and J. H. Willis. 2008. Ecological reproductive isolation of coast and inland races of Mimulus guttatus. Evolution. 62:2196-2214. Abstract

Lowry, D. B., J. L. Modliszewski, K. M. Wright, C. A. Wu, and J. H. Willis. 2008. The strength and genetic basis of reproductive isolating barriers in flowering plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 363:3009-3021. Full Text

McDaniel, S.F., J. H. Willis, and A. J. Shaw. 2008. The genetic basis of developmental abnormalities in interpopulation hybrids of the moss Ceratodon purpureus. Genetics. 179:1425-1435. Full Text

Case, A. L., and J. H. Willis. 2008. Hybrid male sterility in Mimulus (Phrymaceae) is associated with a geographically restricted mitochondrial rearrangement. Evolution. 62: 1026-1039. Abstract

Sweigart, A. L., N. H. Martin, and J. H. Willis. 2008. Patterns of nucleotide variation and reproductive isolation between a Mimulus allotetraploid and its progenitor species. Molecular Ecology. 17:2089-2100. Abstract

Cooley, A. M., G. Carvallo, and J.H. Willis. 2008. Is Floral Diversification Associated with Pollinator Divergence? Flower Shape, Flower Colour and Pollinator Preference in Chilean Mimulus. Annals of Botany. 101: 641-650. Abstract

Fishman, L., and J. H. Willis. 2008. Pollen limitation and natural selection on floral characters in the yellow monkeyflower Mimulus guttatus. New Phytologist. 177:802-810. Full Text

Wu, C. A., D. B. Lowry, A. M. Cooley, K. M. Wright, Y.W. Lee, and J. H. Willis. 2008. Mimulus is an emerging model system for the integration of ecological and genomic studies. Heredity. 100:220-230. PDF

2007

Mitchell-Olds, T., J. H. Willis, and D. Goldstein. 2007. What evolutionary processes influence natural genetic variation for phenotypic traits? Nature Reviews Genetics. 8:845-856.

McDaniel, S.F., J. H. Willis, and A. J. Shaw. 2007. A linkage map reveals a complex basis for segregation distortion in an inter-populational cross in the moss Ceratodon purpureus. Genetics. 176:2489-2500.

Rieseberg, L. H., and J. H. Willis. 2007. Plant speciation. Science. 317:910-914.

Martin, N. H., and J. H. Willis. 2007. Ecological divergence associated with mating system causes nearly complete reproductive isolation between sympatric Mimulus species. Evolution. 61:68-82.

Sweigart, A. L., A. Mason, J. H. Willis. 2007. Natural variation for a hybrid incompatibility between two species of Mimulus. Evolution. 61:141-151.

2006

Hall, M. C., and J. H. Willis. 2006. Divergent selection on flowering time contributes to local adaptation in Mimulus guttatus populations. Evolution. 60:2466-2477.

Aagaard, J. E., J. H. Willis, and P. C. Phillips. 2006. Relaxed selection among duplicate floral regulatory genes in Lamiales. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 63:493-503.

Fishman, L. and J. H. Willis. 2006. A cytonuclear incompatibility causes anther sterility in Mimulus hybrids. Evolution. 60:1372-1381.

Sweigart, A. L., L. Fishman, and J. H. Willis. 2006. A simple genetic incompatibility causes hybrid male sterility in Mimulus. Genetics. 172:2465-2479.

Hall, M. C., C. Basten, and J. H. Willis. 2006. Pleiotropic quantitative trait loci contribute to population divergence in traits associated with life-history variation in Mimulus guttatus. Genetics. 172:1829-1844.

2005

Aagaard, J. E., R. G. Olmstead, J. H. Willis, and P. C. Phillips. 2005. Duplication of floral regulatory genes in the Lamiales. American Journal of Botany. 92:1284-1293.

Hall, M. C. and J. H. Willis. 2005. Transmission ratio distortion in intraspecific hybrids of Mimulus guttatus: Implications for genomic divergence. Genetics. 170:375-386.

Fishman, L. and J. H. Willis. 2005. A novel meiotic drive locus almost completely distorts segregation in Mimulus (monkeyflower) hybrids. Genetics. 169:347-353.

2000-2004

Sweigart, A. L. and J. H. Willis. 2003. Patterns of nucleotide diversity are affected by mating system and asymmetric introgression in two species of Mimulus. Evolution, 57:2490-2506.

Fishman, L. A. J. Kelly, J. H. Willis. 2002. Minor quantitative trait loci underlie floral traits associated with mating system divergence in Mimulus. Evolution. 56 (11): 2138-2155.

Kelly, JK; Willis, JH. 2002. A manipulative experiment to estimate biparental inbreeding in monkeyflowers. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 163:575-579.

Fishman, L., A. J. Kelly, E. Morgan, and J. H. Willis. 2001. A genetic map in the Mimulus guttatus species complex reveals transmission ratio distortion due to heterospecific interactions. Genetics.159:1701-1716.

Fishman, L. and J. H. Willis. 2001. Evidence for Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilites contributing to the sterility of hybrids between Mimulus guttatus and M. nasutus. Evolution. 55:1932-1942.

Kelly, J. K., and J. H. Willis. 2001. Deleterious mutations and genetic variation for flower size in Mimulus guttatus. Evolution. 55:937-942.

Earlier Papers

Willis, J. H. 1999. Inbreeding load, average dominance, and the mutation rate for mildly deleterious alleles in Mimulus guttatus. Genetics. 153:1885-1898.

Willis, J. H. 1999. The role of genes of large effect on inbreeding depression in Mimulus guttatus. Evolution. 53:1678-1691.

Willis, J. H. 1999. The contribution of male sterility mutations to inbreeding depression in Mimulus guttatus. Heredity. 83:337-346.

Sweigart, A., K. Karoly, A. Jones, and J. H. Willis. 1999. The distribution of individual inbreeding coefficients and pairwise relatedness in a population of Mimulus guttatus. Heredity. 83:625-632.

Schultz, S. T., M. Lynch, and J. H. Willis. 1999. The genomic mutation rate for fitness in Arabidopsis thaliana. Procedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 96:11393-11398.

Lynch, M., J. Blanchard, D. Houle, T. Kibota, S. Schultz, L. Vassilieva, and J. H. Willis. 1999. Spontaneous deleterious mutation. Evolution, 53:645-663.

Kelly, A. J. and J. H. Willis. 1998. Polymorphic microsatellite loci in Mimulus guttatus and related species. Molecular Ecology. 7:769-774.

Willis, J. H. 1996. Measures of phenotypic selection are biased by partial inbreeding. Evolution. 50:1501-1511.

Schultz, S. T. and J. H. Willis. 1995. Individual variation in inbreeding depression: the roles of inbreeding history and mutation. Genetics. 141:1209-1223.

Gimelfarb, A. and J. H. Willis. 1994. Linearity vs. nonlinearity of offspring-parent regression: experimental study. Genetics. 138:343-352.

Willis, J. H. and H. A. Orr. 1993. Increased heritable variation following population bottlenecks: The role of dominance. Evolution. 47:949-957.

Willis, J. H. 1993. Effects of different levels of inbreeding on fitness components in Mimulus guttatus. Evolution. 47:864-876.

Willis, J. H. 1993. Partial self-fertilization and inbreeding depression in two populations of Mimulus guttatus. Heredity. 71:145-154.

Willis, J. H. 1992. Genetic analysis of inbreeding depression caused by chlorophyll-deficient lethals in Mimulus guttatus. Heredity. 69: 562-572.

Willis, J. H., J. A. Coyne, and M. Kirkpatrick. 1991. Can one predict the evolution of quantitative traits without genetics? Evolution. 45:441-444.


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