Mark D. Rausher

John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Biology

Office:

Room 3326 French Family Science Center, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box:

Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338

Phone:

(919) 684-2295

Email:

mrausher@duke.edu

http://www.duke.edu/~mrausher/

We investigate the evolutionary processes that cause change at both the phenotypic and genetic levels. We have particular interests in the genetic basis of adaptation and in the evolution of metabolic pathways. Our approaches include molecular dissection of ecologically important phenotypes and characterizing patterns of selection acting on those phenotypes under natural conditions. For more information, please visit the Rausher lab web site.

Education

Ph.D., Cornell University 1978
B.A., University of Chicago 1973

Rausher, MD. "The Evolution of Flavonoids and Their Genes." In The Science of Flavonoids, 175-211.: Springer New York, 2006. Full Text

Rausher, MD. "Natural selection and the evolution of plant-insect interactions." In Evolutionary Perspectives in Insect Chemical Ecology,edited by BD Roitberg and MB Isman, 20-88. NY: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1992. (Chapter)

Rausher, MD. "The Ecology of host selection behavior in phytophagous insects." In Variable Plants and Herbivores in Natural and Managed Systems,edited by RF Denno and MS McClure, 223-257. NY: Academic press, 1983. (Chapter)

Papaj, DR, and Rausher, MD. "Individual variation in host location by phytophagous insects." In Herbivore Insects: Host Seeking Behavior and Mechanisms,edited by S Ahmad, 77-124. NY: Academic Press, 1983. (Chapter)

Rausher, MD, and Papaj, DR. "Individual variation in host location by phytophagous insects." In Herbivore Insects: Host Seeking Behavior and Mechanisms,edited by S Ahmad, 77-124. NY: Academic Press, 1983. (Chapter)

Feng, C, Feng, C, Yang, L, Kang, M, and Rausher, MD. "Genetic architecture of quantitative flower and leaf traits in a pair of sympatric sister species of Primulina." Heredity (December 5, 2018). Full Text

Wessinger, CA, Kelly, JK, Jiang, P, Rausher, MD, and Hileman, LC. "SNP-skimming: A fast approach to map loci generating quantitative variation in natural populations." Molecular Ecology Resources 18, no. 6 (November 2018): 1402-1414. Full Text

Muñoz-Rodríguez, P, Carruthers, T, Wood, JRI, Williams, BRM, Weitemier, K, Kronmiller, B, Ellis, D, Anglin, NL, Longway, L, Harris, SA, Rausher, MD, Kelly, S, Liston, A, and Scotland, RW. "Reconciling Conflicting Phylogenies in the Origin of Sweet Potato and Dispersal to Polynesia." Current Biology : Cb 28, no. 8 (April 12, 2018): 1246-1256.e12. Full Text

Jiang, P, and Rausher, M. "Two genetic changes in cis-regulatory elements caused evolution of petal spot position in Clarkia(Accepted)." Nature Plants (January 3, 2018): 1-9. Full Text

Kramer, EM, Kong, H, and Rausher, MD. "Plant evolutionary developmental biology. Introduction to a special issue." The New phytologist 216, no. 2 (October 2017): 335-336. Full Text

Martins, TR, Jiang, P, and Rausher, MD. "How petals change their spots: cis-regulatory re-wiring in Clarkia (Onagraceae)." The New Phytologist 216, no. 2 (October 2017): 510-518. Full Text

Rausher, MD. "Selfing, Local Mate Competition, and Reinforcement." The American Naturalist 189, no. 2 (February 2017): 87-104. Full Text

Wise, MJ, and Rausher, MD. "Costs of resistance and correlational selection in the multiple-herbivore community of Solanum carolinense." Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 70, no. 10 (October 2016): 2411-2420. Full Text

"Correction for Chappell and Rausher, Evolution of host range in Coleosporium ipomoeae , a plant pathogen with multiple hosts." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 28 (July 12, 2016): E4118-E4118. Full Text

Wessinger, CA, Freeman, CC, Mort, ME, Rausher, MD, and Hileman, LC. "Multiplexed shotgun genotyping resolves species relationships within the North American genus Penstemon." American journal of botany 103, no. 5 (May 10, 2016): 912-922. Full Text