Publications


Links to the pdfs are provided when available. 

Hodges, Scott A. and Justen B. Whittall. 2008. One-sided evolution of two? A reply to Ennos. Heredity 1-2. [PDF]


Whittall, Justen B. and Scott A. Hodges. 2007. Pollinator shifts drive         increasingly long nectar spurs in columbine flowers. Nature,        v. 447, pp. 406-409. [PDF & Supplementary Information]


Whittall, Justen B. and Sharon Strauss. 2006. Non-pollinator agents of selection on floral traits. In: Ecology and Evolution of Flowers (Eds. L. Harder and S. Barrett) Oxford University Press, pp.120-138. [PDF]


Whittall, Justen B.*, Claudia Voelckel*, and Scott A. Hodges. 2006. Convergence, constraint and the role of gene expression during adaptive radiation: Floral anthocyanins in Aquilegia. Molecular Ecology 15: 4645-4657 (* both authors contributed equally). [PDF & Supplementary Information]


Kay, Kathleen*, Justen B. Whittall*, and Scott A. Hodges. 2006. A survey of nrITS substitution rates across angiosperms reveals an approximate molecular clock with life history effects. BMC Evolutionary Biology: 6: 36 (* both authors contributed equally). [PDF]


Whittall, Justen B., Andrew Medina-Marino, Elizabeth A. Zimmer, and Scott A. Hodges. 2006. Generating single-copy nuclear gene data for species-level phylogenies: Further evidence for a rapid radiation in Aquilegia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 124-134. [PDF]

     

Whittall, Justen B., Matthew Carlson, Paul M. Beardsley, Robert J. Meinke and Aaron Liston. 2006. The Mimulus moschatus alliance (Phrymaceae): Molecular and morphological phylogenetics and their conservation implications. Systematic Botany 31(2): 380-397. [PDF]

 

Whittall, Justen B., C. Barre Hellequist, Edward Schneider, and Scott A. Hodges. 2004. Cryptic species in an endangered pondweed community (Potamogeton, Potamogetonaceae) revealed by AFLP markers. American Journal of Botany 91 (12): 2022-2029. [PDF]

 

Beardsley, Paul M., S. E. Schoenig, Justen B. Whittall, and Richard G. Olmstead. 2004. The radiation of Mimulus in western North America: Systematics, hybridization, chromosomal evolution, cryptic biodiversity, and patterns of rarity. American Journal of Botany 91(3): 474-489. [PDF]

 

Hodges, Scott A., Michelle Fulton, Ji Y. Yang, and Justen Whittall. 2004. Verne Grant and evolutionary studies of Aquilegia. New Phytologist 161(1): 113-120. [PDF]

 

Whittall, Justen B., C. Barre Hellequist and Edward Schneider. 2004. Monitoring the Little Aguja Pondweed (Potamogeton clystocarpus): Distribution, Morphology and Taxonomic Status in a Diverse Pondweed Community. In: Proceedings from the Texas Rare Plant Symposium (Eds. C. Delmatier and D. Price) US Fish and Wildlife Service, Austin, TX.

 

Hodges, Scott A., Justen B. Whittall, Michelle Fulton and Ji Yang. 2002. Genetics and floral isolation between Aquilegia formosa and A. pubescens. American Naturalist 159: S51-S60. [PDF]

 

Whittall, Justen B., Aaron Liston, Steve D. Gisler, and Robert J. Meinke. 2000. Detecting superimposed nucleotide additivity patterns is a SNAP: an example from Sidalcea (Malvaceae). Plant Biology 2: 211-217. [PDF]

 

Linderman, Jon K., Justen B. Whittall, Krisin L. Gosselink, Tommy J. Wang, Venkat R. Mukku, Frank W. Booth, and Richard Grindeland. 1995. Stimulation of myofibrillar protein synthesis in hindlimb suspended rats by resistance exercise and growth hormone. Life Sciences 57: 755-762. [PDF]