John H. Willis
Professor of Biology
Education
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Ph.D., University of Chicago 1991
Fierst, JL, Murdock, DA, Thanthiriwatte, C, Willis, JH, and Phillips, PC. "Metagenome-Assembled Draft Genome Sequence of a Novel Microbial Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Strain Isolated from Caenorhabditis remanei Tissue ." Genome Announcements 5, no. 7 (February 16, 2017): e01646-16-e01646-16. Full Text
Ferris, KG, Barnett, LL, Blackman, BK, and Willis, JH. "The genetic architecture of local adaptation and reproductive isolation in sympatry within the Mimulus guttatus species complex." Molecular ecology 26, no. 1 (January 2017): 208-224. Full Text
Puzey, JR, Willis, JH, and Kelly, JK. "Population structure and local selection yield high genomic variation in Mimulus guttatus." Molecular ecology 26, no. 2 (January 2017): 519-535. Full Text
Lee, YW, Fishman, L, Kelly, JK, and Willis, JH. "A Segregating Inversion Generates Fitness Variation in Yellow Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus)." Genetics 202, no. 4 (April 2016): 1473-1484. Full Text
Fierst, JL, Willis, JH, Thomas, CG, Wang, W, Reynolds, RM, Ahearne, TE, Cutter, AD, and Phillips, PC. "Correction: Reproductive Mode and the Evolution of Genome Size and Structure in Caenorhabditis Nematodes." PLOS Genetics 11, no. 9 (September 22, 2015): e1005497-e1005497. Full Text
Ferris, KG, Rushton, T, Greenlee, AB, Toll, K, Blackman, BK, and Willis, JH. "Leaf shape evolution has a similar genetic architecture in three edaphic specialists within the Mimulus guttatus species complex." Annals of botany 116, no. 2 (August 2015): 213-223. Full Text
Fierst, JL, Willis, JH, Thomas, CG, Wang, W, Reynolds, RM, Ahearne, TE, Cutter, AD, and Phillips, PC. "Reproductive Mode and the Evolution of Genome Size and Structure in Caenorhabditis Nematodes." Edited by M Blaxter. PLOS Genetics 11, no. 6 (June 26, 2015): e1005323-e1005323. Full Text
Friedman, J, Twyford, AD, Willis, JH, and Blackman, BK. "The extent and genetic basis of phenotypic divergence in life history traits in Mimulus guttatus." Molecular ecology 24, no. 1 (January 2015): 111-122. Full Text
Ferris, KG, Sexton, JP, and Willis, JH. "Speciation on a local geographic scale: the evolution of a rare rock outcrop specialist in Mimulus." Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 369, no. 1648 (August 2014). Full Text
Oneal, E, Lowry, DB, Wright, KM, Zhu, Z, and Willis, JH. "Divergent population structure and climate associations of a chromosomal inversion polymorphism across the Mimulus guttatus species complex." Molecular ecology 23, no. 11 (June 2014): 2844-2860. Full Text
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Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
Collaborative Research: Hybrid Seed Inviability and the Evolution of Endosperm Development in Mimulus awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2019
Collaborative Proposal: The ecological genomic basis of parallel serpentine adaptation in Mimulus awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2018
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Genetic Basis of Population Divergence in the Threshold of Environmental Induction of a Floral Po awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2018
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Shedding Light on the Complex Relationship Between Circadian Clock Variation and the Trade-off Be awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2017
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Genetic Basis and Adaptive Significance of Key Developmental Traits Underlying awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2017
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Understanding the Role of Chromosomal Inversions in Life History Divergence and Local Adaptation in Mimulus awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2017
A Genomic Analysis of Complex Trait Variation in Mimulus awarded by University of Kansas (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2016
LiT: Genomic Analysis of Life-history Adaptation awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2010 to 2014
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Genetics of Adaptation to a Novel Stressful Environment in Mimulus awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2014
