John H. Willis
Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago 1991
Coughlan, Jennifer M., and John H. Willis. “Dissecting the role of a large chromosomal inversion in life history divergence throughout the Mimulus guttatus species complex..” Molecular Ecology 28, no. 6 (March 2019): 1343–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14804. Full Text
Selby, Jessica P., and John H. Willis. “Major QTL controls adaptation to serpentine soils in Mimulus guttatus..” Molecular Ecology 27, no. 24 (December 18, 2018): 5073–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14922. Full Text
Toll, Katherine, and John H. Willis. “Hybrid inviability and differential submergence tolerance drive habitat segregation between two congeneric monkeyflowers..” Ecology, October 26, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2529. Full Text
Troth, Ashley, Joshua R. Puzey, Rebecca S. Kim, John H. Willis, and John K. Kelly. “Selective trade-offs maintain alleles underpinning complex trait variation in plants..” Science (New York, N.Y.) 361, no. 6401 (August 2018): 475–78. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat5760. Full Text
Ferris, Kathleen G., and John H. Willis. “Differential adaptation to a harsh granite outcrop habitat between sympatric Mimulus species..” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 72, no. 6 (June 2018): 1225–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13476. Full Text
Barnett, Laryssa L., Ashley Troth, and John H. Willis. “Plastic breeding system response to day length in the California wildflower Mimulus douglasii..” American Journal of Botany 105, no. 4 (April 25, 2018): 779–87. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1063. Full Text
Aeschbacher, Simon, Jessica P. Selby, John H. Willis, and Graham Coop. “Population-genomic inference of the strength and timing of selection against gene flow..” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114, no. 27 (July 2017): 7061–66. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616755114. Full Text
Greenham, Kathleen, Ping Lou, Joshua R. Puzey, Ganesh Kumar, Cindy Arnevik, Hany Farid, John H. Willis, and C Robertson McClung. “Geographic Variation of Plant Circadian Clock Function in Natural and Agricultural Settings..” Journal of Biological Rhythms 32, no. 1 (February 2017): 26–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730416679307. Full Text
Fierst, J. L., D. A. Murdock, C. Thanthiriwatte, J. H. Willis, and P. C. Phillips. “Metagenomeassembled draft genome sequence of a novel microbial Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain isolated from Caenorhabditis remanei tissue.” Genome Announcements 5, no. 7 (January 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01646-16. Full Text
Ferris, Kathleen G., Laryssa L. Barnett, Benjamin K. Blackman, and John H. Willis. “The genetic architecture of local adaptation and reproductive isolation in sympatry within the Mimulus guttatus species complex..” Molecular Ecology 26, no. 1 (January 2017): 208–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13763. Full Text
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Selected Grants
Collaborative Research: RoL: Rapid Evolution of Reproductive Isolation via Hybrid Seed Lethality in Mimulus awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2023
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
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 2018
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
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