Thomas Mitchell-Olds
Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1985
B.A., Earlham College 1978
Voigt, M. L., M. Melzer, T. Rutten, T. Mitchell-Olds, and T. F. Sharbel. “Gametogenesis in the apomictic Boechera holboellii complex: the male perspective.” In Apomixis: Evolution, Mechanisms and Perspectives, edited by E. Horandl, U. Grossniklaus, P. van Dijk, and T. F. Sharbel. International Association for Plant Taxonomy - Koeltz Scientific Books, 2007.
Mitchell-Olds, T., I. Al-Shehbaz, M. Koch, and T. Sharbel. “Crucifer Evolution in the Post-Genomic Era.” In Diversity and Evolution of Plants - Genotype and Phenotype Variation in Higher Plants, edited by R. Henry, 119–37. CABI press, 2005.
Gurganus, M., and T. Mitchell-Olds. “Quantitative Trait Loci and Developmental Plasticity.” In Plant Evolutionary Genetics and the Biology of Weeds, edited by B. A. Schaal, T. Y. Chiang, and C. H. Chou, 77–100. Ch-Chi, Taiwan: Endemic Species Research Institute, 2004.
Kroymann, J., and T. Mitchell-Olds. “Function and evolution of an Arabidopsis insect resistance QTL.” In Biology of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, edited by B. Lugtenberg, I. Tikhonovich, and N. Provprov, 4:259–62. . International Society of Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions, APS Press, 2003.
Rushworth, Catherine A., Yaniv Brandvain, and Tom Mitchell-Olds. “Identifying the fitness consequences of sex in complex natural environments.” Evolution Letters 4, no. 6 (December 2020): 516–29. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.194. Full Text
Rushworth, Catherine A., and Tom Mitchell-Olds. “The Evolution of Sex is Tempered by Costly Hybridization in Boechera (Rock Cress).” The Journal of Heredity, November 19, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaa041. Full Text
Mandáková, Terezie, Petra Hloušková, Michael D. Windham, Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Kaylynn Ashby, Bo Price, John Carman, and Martin A. Lysak. “Chromosomal Evolution and Apomixis in the Cruciferous Tribe Boechereae.” Frontiers in Plant Science 11 (January 2020): 514. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00514. Full Text
Wang, Baosheng, Julius P. Mojica, Nadeesha Perera, Cheng-Ruei Lee, John T. Lovell, Aditi Sharma, Catherine Adam, et al. “Correction to: Ancient polymorphisms contribute to genome-wide variation by long-term balancing selection and divergent sorting in Boechera stricta.” Genome Biology 20, no. 1 (August 9, 2019): 161. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1781-5. Full Text
Wang, Baosheng, Julius P. Mojica, Nadeesha Perera, Cheng-Ruei Lee, John T. Lovell, Aditi Sharma, Catherine Adam, et al. “Ancient polymorphisms contribute to genome-wide variation by long-term balancing selection and divergent sorting in Boechera stricta.” Genome Biology 20, no. 1 (June 21, 2019): 126. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-019-1729-9. Full Text
Keith, Rose A., and Thomas Mitchell-Olds. “Antagonistic selection and pleiotropy constrain the evolution of plant chemical defenses.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 73, no. 5 (May 2019): 947–60. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13728. Full Text
Rushworth, Catherine A., Michael D. Windham, Rose A. Keith, and Tom Mitchell-Olds. “Ecological differentiation facilitates fine-scale coexistence of sexual and asexual Boechera.” American Journal of Botany 105, no. 12 (December 13, 2018): 2051–64. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1201. Full Text
Arisz, Steven A., Jae-Yun Heo, Iko T. Koevoets, Tao Zhao, Pieter van Egmond, A Jessica Meyer, Weiqing Zeng, et al. “DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE1 Contributes to Freezing Tolerance.” Plant Physiology 177, no. 4 (August 2018): 1410–24. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.00503. Full Text
Grondin, Alexandre, Shalabh Dixit, Rolando Torres, Challa Venkateshwarlu, Eric Rogers, Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Philip N. Benfey, Arvind Kumar, and Amelia Henry. “Physiological mechanisms contributing to the QTL qDTY3.2 effects on improved performance of rice Moroberekan x Swarna BC2F3:4 lines under drought.” Rice (New York, N.Y.) 11, no. 1 (July 31, 2018): 43. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12284-018-0234-1. Full Text
Wagner, Maggie R., and Thomas Mitchell-Olds. “Plasticity of plant defense and its evolutionary implications in wild populations of Boechera stricta.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 72, no. 5 (May 2018): 1034–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13469. Full Text
Pages
Anderson, Jill T., David W. Inouye, Amy M. McKinney, Robert I. Colautti, and Tom Mitchell-Olds. “Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change.” In Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 279:3843–52, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1051. Full Text
Wittstock, Ute, Niels Agerbirk, Einar J. Stauber, Carl Erik Olsen, Michael Hippler, Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Jonathan Gershenzon, and Heiko Vogel. “Successful herbivore attack due to metabolic diversion of a plant chemical defense.” In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101:4859–64, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0308007101. Full Text
Kroymann, Juergen, Susanne Donnerhacke, Domenica Schnabelrauch, and Thomas Mitchell-Olds. “Evolutionary dynamics of an Arabidopsis insect resistance quantitative trait locus.” In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100 Suppl 2:14587–92, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1734046100. Full Text
Ratzka, Andreas, Heiko Vogel, Daniel J. Kliebenstein, Thomas Mitchell-Olds, and Juergen Kroymann. “Disarming the mustard oil bomb.” In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99:11223–28, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.172112899. Full Text
McKay, J. K., J. G. Bishop, J. Z. Lin, J. H. Richards, A. Sala, and T. Mitchell-Olds. “Local adaptation across a climatic gradient despite small effective population size in the rare sapphire rockcress.” In Proceedings. Biological Sciences, 268:1715–21, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2001.1715. Full Text
Bishop, J. G., A. M. Dean, and T. Mitchell-Olds. “Rapid evolution in plant chitinases: molecular targets of selection in plant-pathogen coevolution.” In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 97:5322–27, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.97.10.5322. Full Text
Stotz, H., J. Kroymann, M. Tobler, and T. Mitchell-Olds. “Systematic genetic and molecular analysis of insect resistance in Arabidopsis.” In Biology of Plant Microbe Interactions, Vol 2, edited by J. G. M. DeWit, T. Bisseling, and W. J. Stiekema, 373–77. INTERNATIONAL SOC MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS, 2000.
Mitchell-Olds, T. “Genetics and evolution of insect resistance in Arabidopsis.” In Insect Plant Interactions and Inducible Plant Defense, edited by D. J. Chadwick, 239–48. London: Novartis Foundation, 1999.
MITCHELLOLDS, T. “QUANTITATIVE GENETIC CHANGES IN SMALL POPULATIONS.” In Unity of Evolutionary Biology, Vols 1 and 2, 634–38, 1991.
Selected Grants
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Genetic Effects of Plant Defense on Above- and Below-ground Ecological Interactions and Natural Selection awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2021
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2005 to 2021
Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1979 to 2020
Molecular Causes and Fitness Consequences of Complex Trait Variation awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2008 to 2019
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Genetic Architecture of Covarying Traits awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2017
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity for Chemical Defenses in a Wild Plant awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2016
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evolutionary Genetics of Asexual Reproduction in a Wild Plant Species awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2016
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Genetic Architecture and Genomic Divergence During Ecological Speciation in Boechera stricta, a Wild Relative of Arabidopsis awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2014
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evolution of a novel phenotype: The role promiscuous enzyme function in adaptation awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2010 to 2013
Ecological Genomics of Local Adaptation and Trait Variation in an Arabidopsis Relative awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2007 to 2011