Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1993
  • M.S., The University of Chicago 1988
  • B.A., Stanford University 1985
  • B.S., Stanford University 1985
  • M.S., Stanford University 1985
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Associate Professor of Biology, Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2012
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  Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke

  • Director, University Program in Ecology (2017-2020)
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • APR 16, 2013

    Biologist Kathleen Dononue Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
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  Awards & Honors

  • President. American Society of Naturalists. 2015
  • Fellow. National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis. 2013
  • Fellowship. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2013
  • Scholar. National Evolutionary Synthesis Center . 2013
  • Fellow. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2012
  • Bullard Fellow. Harvard University, Harvard Forest. 2001
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Demographic and evolutionary consequences of phenological tracking awarded by  National Science Foundation 2021 - 2024
  • Epigenetic stability and its evolutionary potential awarded by  National Science Foundation 2016 - 2023
  • Genetics Training Grant awarded by National Institutes of Health 1979 - 2020
  • DISSERTATION RESEARCH: The Phenotypic and Genetic Basis of Facilitation and Competition in Plants awarded by  National Science Foundation 2015 - 2018
  • The Genetic Basis and Adaptive Significance of Pleiotropy: FLC-Regulated Germination and Flowering awarded by  National Science Foundation 2012 - 2017
  • Collaborative Research: Integrating Genetically Informed Models of Germination and Flowering to Predict Life History Responses to Changing Climate awarded by  National Science Foundation 2010 - 2016
  • DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Predicting Plant Life-Cycles in Changing Environments awarded by  National Science Foundation 2013 - 2016
  • DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Adaptive divergence and the evolution of reproductive isolation across the genus Cakile (Brassi awarded by  National Science Foundation 2010 - 2013
  • The Physiological Basis of Natural Variation in Germination Responses of Arabidopsis Thaliana awarded by  National Science Foundation 2008 - 2012
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • Reckoning with Race, Racism, and the History of the American South Initiative: Unearthing Duke Forest awarded by Duke Office of the Provost 2021
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Donohue, Kathleen. Darwin's Finches Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm. University of Chicago Press, 2011.

  • Academic Articles

    • Alvarez, Mariano, Andrew Bleich, and Kathleen Donohue. “Genetic differences in the temporal and environmental stability of transgenerational environmental effects.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 75, no. 11 (November 2021): 2773–90. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14367.
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    • Zhang, C., C. G. Willis, K. Donohue, Z. Ma, and G. Du. “Effects of environment, life-history and phylogeny on germination strategy of 789 angiosperms species on the eastern Tibetan Plateau.” Ecological Indicators 129 (October 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107974.
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    • D’Aguillo, Michelle, Caleb Hazelwood, Brandie Quarles, and Kathleen Donohue. “Genetic Consequences of Biologically Altered Environments.” The Journal of Heredity, September 17, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esab047.
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    • Wang, X., M. Alvarez, K. Donohue, W. Ge, Y. Cao, K. Liu, G. Du, and H. Bu. “Elevation filters seed traits and germination strategies in the eastern Tibetan Plateau.” Ecography 44, no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 242–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04972.
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    • Alvarez, Mariano, Andrew Bleich, and Kathleen Donohue. “Genotypic variation in the persistence of transgenerational responses to seasonal cues.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 74, no. 10 (October 2020): 2265–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13996.
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    • Auge, Gabriela A., Steven Penfield, and Kathleen Donohue. “Pleiotropy in developmental regulation by flowering-pathway genes: is it an evolutionary constraint?” The New Phytologist 224, no. 1 (October 2019): 55–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15901.
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    • D’Aguillo, Michelle C., Brianne R. Edwards, and Kathleen Donohue. “Can the Environment have a Genetic Basis? A Case Study of Seedling Establishment in Arabidopsis thaliana.” The Journal of Heredity 110, no. 4 (July 2019): 467–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esz019.
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    • Stinson, Kristina, Lauren Carley, Laura Hancock, and Kathleen Donohue. “Effects of maternal source and progeny microhabitat on natural selection and population dynamics in Alliaria petiolata.” American Journal of Botany 106, no. 6 (June 4, 2019): 821–32. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1299.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen. “Multi-tasking as an ancient skill: When one gene does many things well.” Molecular Ecology 28, no. 5 (March 2019): 917–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15003.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen. “The Snail's Charm.” The American Naturalist 193, no. 2 (February 2019): 149–63. https://doi.org/10.1086/700960.
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    • Vayda, Katherine, Kathleen Donohue, and Gabriela Alejandra Auge. “Within- and trans-generational plasticity: seed germination responses to light quantity and quality.” Aob Plants 10, no. 3 (June 2018): ply023. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/ply023.
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    • Martel, Catherine, Logan K. Blair, and Kathleen Donohue. “PHYD prevents secondary dormancy establishment of seeds exposed to high temperature and is associated with lower PIL5 accumulation.” Journal of Experimental Botany 69, no. 12 (May 2018): 3157–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery140.
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    • Saastamoinen, Marjo, Greta Bocedi, Julien Cote, Delphine Legrand, Frédéric Guillaume, Christopher W. Wheat, Emanuel A. Fronhofer, et al. “Genetics of dispersal.” Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 93, no. 1 (February 2018): 574–99. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12356.
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    • Auge, Gabriela A., Logan K. Blair, Aleena Karediya, and Kathleen Donohue. “The autonomous flowering-time pathway pleiotropically regulates seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Annals of Botany 121, no. 1 (January 2018): 183–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx132.
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    • Leverett, Lindsay D., George F. Schieder, and Kathleen Donohue. “The fitness benefits of germinating later than neighbors.” American Journal of Botany 105, no. 1 (January 2018): 20–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1004.
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    • Edwards, Brianne, Liana T. Burghardt, Katherine E. Kovach, and Kathleen Donohue. “Canalization of Seasonal Phenology in the Presence of Developmental Variation: Seed Dormancy Cycling in an Annual Weed.” Integrative and Comparative Biology 57, no. 5 (November 2017): 1021–39. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx065.
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    • Williams, Caroline M., Gregory J. Ragland, Gustavo Betini, Lauren B. Buckley, Zachary A. Cheviron, Kathleen Donohue, Joe Hereford, et al. “Understanding Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality: An Introduction to the Symposium.” Integrative and Comparative Biology 57, no. 5 (November 2017): 921–33. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx122.
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    • Auge, Gabriela A., Lindsay D. Leverett, Brianne R. Edwards, and Kathleen Donohue. “Adjusting phenotypes via within- and across-generational plasticity.” The New Phytologist 216, no. 2 (October 2017): 343–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14495.
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    • Auge, Gabriela A., Logan K. Blair, Hannah Neville, and Kathleen Donohue. “Maternal vernalization and vernalization-pathway genes influence progeny seed germination.” The New Phytologist 216, no. 2 (October 2017): 388–400. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14520.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen. “Divergence in How Genetic Pathways Respond to Environments.” Trends in Plant Science 22, no. 10 (October 2017): 817–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2017.08.008.
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    • Coughlan, J. M., A. Saha, and K. Donohue. “Effects of pre- and post-dispersal temperature on primary and secondary dormancy dynamics in contrasting genotypes of A rabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae).” Plant Species Biology 32, no. 3 (July 1, 2017): 210–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/1442-1984.12145.
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    • Blair, Logan, Gabriela Auge, and Kathleen Donohue. “Effect of FLOWERING LOCUS C on seed germination depends on dormancy.” Functional Plant Biology : Fpb 44, no. 5 (May 2017): 493–506. https://doi.org/10.1071/fp16368.
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    • Imaizumi, Toshiyuki, Gabriela Auge, and Kathleen Donohue. “Photoperiod throughout the maternal life cycle, not photoperiod during seed imbibition, influences germination in Arabidopsis thaliana.” American Journal of Botany 104, no. 4 (April 14, 2017): 516–26. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1600389.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen, Brianne Edwards, and Liana Burghardt. “Interpreting variation in dormancy and germination time under diverse seasonal conditions.” Integrative and Comparative Biology 57 (March 1, 2017): E248–E248.
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    • Willis, C. G., and K. Donohue. “The evolution of intrinsic reproductive isolation in the genus Cakile (Brassicaceae).” Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30, no. 2 (February 2017): 361–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13011.
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    • Leverett, Lindsay D., Gabriela A. Auge, Aman Bali, and Kathleen Donohue. “Contrasting germination responses to vegetative canopies experienced in pre- vs. post-dispersal environments.” Annals of Botany 118, no. 6 (November 2016): 1175–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw166.
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    • Mesgaran, Mohsen B., Mark A. Lewis, Peter K. Ades, Kathleen Donohue, Sara Ohadi, Chengjun Li, and Roger D. Cousens. “Hybridization can facilitate species invasions, even without enhancing local adaptation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, no. 36 (September 2016): 10210–14. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605626113.
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    • Edwards, B. R., L. T. Burghardt, M. Zapata-Garcia, and K. Donohue. “Maternal temperature effects on dormancy influence germination responses to water availability in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Environmental and Experimental Botany 126 (June 1, 2016): 55–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2016.02.011.
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    • Burghardt, Liana T., Brianne R. Edwards, and Kathleen Donohue. “Multiple paths to similar germination behavior in Arabidopsis thaliana.” The New Phytologist 209, no. 3 (February 2016): 1301–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13685.
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    • Auge, G. A., L. K. Blair, L. T. Burghardt, J. Coughlan, B. Edwards, L. D. Leverett, and K. Donohue. “Secondary dormancy dynamics depends on primary dormancy status in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Seed Science Research 25, no. 2 (June 8, 2015): 230–46. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960258514000440.
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    • Murphey, M., K. Kovach, T. Elnacash, H. He, L. Bentsink, and K. Donohue. “DOG1-imposed dormancy mediates germination responses to temperature cues.” Environmental and Experimental Botany 112 (April 1, 2015): 33–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2014.11.013.
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    • Burghardt, Liana T., C Jessica E. Metcalf, Amity M. Wilczek, Johanna Schmitt, and Kathleen Donohue. “Modeling the influence of genetic and environmental variation on the expression of plant life cycles across landscapes.” The American Naturalist 185, no. 2 (February 2015): 212–27. https://doi.org/10.1086/679439.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen, Liana T. Burghardt, Daniel Runcie, Kent J. Bradford, and Johanna Schmitt. “Applying developmental threshold models to evolutionary ecology.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30, no. 2 (February 2015): 66–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.11.008.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen. “Recipient of the 2014 molecular ecology prize: Johanna Schmitt.” Molecular Ecology 24, no. 1 (January 2015): 18–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12998.
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    • Rubio de Casas, R., K. Donohue, D. L. Venable, and P. -. O. Cheptou. “Gene-flow through space and time: dispersal, dormancy and adaptation to changing environments.” . . Evolutionary Ecology :. 29 (2015): 813–31.
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    • Burghardt, L. T., J. Metcalf, and K. Donohue. “A cline in seed dormancy helps conserve the environment experienced during reproduction across the range of Arabidopsis thaliana.” American Journl of Botany, 2015.
    • Willis, C. G., J. C. Hall, R. Rubio de Casas, T. Y. Wang, and K. Donohue. “Diversification and the evolution of dispersal ability in the tribe Brassiceae (Brassicaceae).” Annals of Botany 114, no. 8 (December 2014): 1675–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcu196.
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    • Willis, Charles G., Carol C. Baskin, Jerry M. Baskin, Josh R. Auld, D Lawrence Venable, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Kathleen Donohue, Rafael Rubio de Casas, and Rafael NESCent Germination Working Group. “The evolution of seed dormancy: environmental cues, evolutionary hubs, and diversification of the seed plants.” The New Phytologist 203, no. 1 (July 2014): 300–309. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.12782.
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    • Gibbs, David C., and Kathleen Donohue. “Gene duplication and the environmental regulation of physiology and development.” Ecology and Evolution 4, no. 11 (June 2014): 2202–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1099.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen. “The epigenetics of adaptation: focusing on epigenetic stability as an evolving trait.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 68, no. 3 (March 2014): 617–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12347.
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    • Donohue, K. “The epigenetics of adaptation: Focusing on epigenetic stability as an evolving trait.” Evolution 68, no. 3 (2014): 617–19.
    • Donohue, Kathleen. “Why ontogeny matters during adaptation: developmental niche construction and pleiotorpy across the life cycle in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 68, no. 1 (January 2014): 32–47. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12284.
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    • Herman, J. J., H. G. Spencer, K. Donohue, and S. E. Sultan. “How stable 'should' epigenetic modifications be? Insights from adaptive plasticity and bet hedging.” Evolution 68, no. 3 (2014): 632–43.
    • Kim, E., and K. Donohue. “Local adaptation and plasticity of Erysimum capitatum to altitude: Its implications for responses to climate change.” Journal of Ecology 101, no. 3 (May 1, 2013): 796–805. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12077.
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    • Cheptou, P. -. O., and K. Donohue. “Epigenetics as a new avenue for the role of inbreeding depression in evolutionary ecology.” Heredity 110, no. 3 (March 2013): 205–6. https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2012.66.
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    • Chiang, George C. K., Deepak Barua, Emily Dittmar, Elena M. Kramer, Rafael Rubio de Casas, and Kathleen Donohue. “Pleiotropy in the wild: the dormancy gene DOG1 exerts cascading control on life cycles.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 67, no. 3 (March 2013): 883–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01828.x.
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    • Avino, Mariano, Elena M. Kramer, Kathleen Donohue, Alexander J. Hammel, and Jocelyn C. Hall. “Understanding the basis of a novel fruit type in Brassicaceae: conservation and deviation in expression patterns of six genes.” Evodevo 3, no. 1 (September 3, 2012): 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-9139-3-20.
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    • Samis, Karen E., Courtney J. Murren, Oliver Bossdorf, Kathleen Donohue, Charles B. Fenster, Russell L. Malmberg, Michael D. Purugganan, and John R. Stinchcombe. “Longitudinal trends in climate drive flowering time clines in North American Arabidopsis thaliana.” Ecology and Evolution 2, no. 6 (June 2012): 1162–80. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.262.
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    • Casas, Rafael Rubio de, Katherine Kovach, Emily Dittmar, Deepak Barua, Brenden Barco, and Kathleen Donohue. “Seed after-ripening and dormancy determine adult life history independently of germination timing.” The New Phytologist 194, no. 3 (May 2012): 868–79. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04097.x.
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    • Donohue, K., D. Barua, C. Butler, T. E. Tisdale, G. C. K. Chiang, E. Dittmar, and R. Rubio de Casas. “Maternal effects alter natural selection on phytochromes through seed germination.” Journal of Ecology 100, no. 3 (May 1, 2012): 750–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01954.x.
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    • Kim, E., and K. Donohue. “The effect of plant architecture on drought resistance: Implications for the evolution of semelparity in Erysimum capitatum.” Functional Ecology 26, no. 1 (February 1, 2012): 294–303. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01936.x.
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    • Barua, Deepak, Colleen Butler, Tracy E. Tisdale, and Kathleen Donohue. “Natural variation in germination responses of Arabidopsis to seasonal cues and their associated physiological mechanisms.” Annals of Botany 109, no. 1 (January 2012): 209–26. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcr264.
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    • Casas, Rubio de, Rubio de R, K. Kovach, E. Dittmar, D. Barua, B. Barco, and K. Donohue. “Environmental sensing of dormant seeds influences adult life history in Arabidopsis thaliana.” New Phytologist doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04097.x (2012).
    • Hall, Jocelyn C., Tracy E. Tisdale, Kathleen Donohue, Andrew Wheeler, Mohammed A. Al-Yahya, and Elena M. Kramer. “Convergent evolution of a complex fruit structure in the tribe Brassiceae (Brassicaceae).” American Journal of Botany 98, no. 12 (December 2011): 1989–2003. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100203.
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    • Kim, Eunsuk, and Kathleen Donohue. “Population differentiation and plasticity in vegetative ontogeny: effects on life-history expression in Erysimum capitatum (Brassicaceae).” American Journal of Botany 98, no. 11 (November 2011): 1752–61. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100194.
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    • Kim, E., and K. Donohue. “Demographic, developmental and life-history variation across altitude in Erysimum capitatum.” Journal of Ecology 99, no. 5 (September 1, 2011): 1237–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01831.x.
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    • Chiang, George C. K., Melanie Bartsch, Deepak Barua, Kazumi Nakabayashi, Marilyne Debieu, Ilkka Kronholm, Maarten Koornneef, Wim J. J. Soppe, Kathleen Donohue, and Juliette De Meaux. “DOG1 expression is predicted by the seed-maturation environment and contributes to geographical variation in germination in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Molecular Ecology 20, no. 16 (August 2011): 3336–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05181.x.
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    • Cheptou, Pierre-Olivier, and Kathleen Donohue. “Environment-dependent inbreeding depression: its ecological and evolutionary significance.” The New Phytologist 189, no. 2 (January 2011): 395–407. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03541.x.
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    • Donohue, K., R. Rubio De Casas, L. Burghardt, K. Kovach, and C. G. Willis. “Germination, postgermination adaptation, and species ecological ranges.” Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 41 (December 1, 2010): 293–319. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102209-144715.
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    • Platt, A., M. Horton, Y. Huang, Y. Li, A. Anastasio, W. Mulyati, J. Agren, et al. “The scale of population structure in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Plos Genetics 6, no. 2 (2010): e1000843.
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    • Huang, E., E. X, J. Schmitt, L. Dorn, C. Griffith, S. Effgen, S. Takao, M. Koornneef, and K. Donohue. “The earliest stages of adaptation in an experimental plant population: strong selection on QTLs for seed dormancy.” Molecular Ecology 19 (2010): 1335–51.
    • Lahti, David C., Norman A. Johnson, Beverly C. Ajie, Sarah P. Otto, Andrew P. Hendry, Daniel T. Blumstein, Richard G. Coss, Kathleen Donohue, and Susan A. Foster. “Relaxed selection in the wild.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24, no. 9 (September 2009): 487–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.010.
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    • Chiang, George C. K., Deepak Barua, Elena M. Kramer, Richard M. Amasino, and Kathleen Donohue. “Major flowering time gene, flowering locus C, regulates seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106, no. 28 (July 2009): 11661–66. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901367106.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen. “Completing the cycle: maternal effects as the missing link in plant life histories.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 364, no. 1520 (April 2009): 1059–74. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0291.
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    • Heschel, M. S., C. M. Butler, D. Barua, G. C. K. Chiang, A. Wheeler, R. A. Sharrock, G. C. Whitelam, and K. Donohue. “New roles of phytochromes during seed germination.” International Journal of Plant Sciences 169, no. 4 (May 1, 2008): 531–40. https://doi.org/10.1086/528753.
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    • Ruane, L. G., and K. Donohue. “Pollen competition and environmental effects on hybridization dynamics between Phlox drummondii and Phlox cuspidata.” Evolutionary Ecology 22, no. 2 (March 1, 2008): 229–41. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-007-9174-8.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen, M Shane Heschel, Colleen M. Butler, Deepak Barua, Robert A. Sharrock, Garry C. Whitelam, and George C. K. Chiang. “Diversification of phytochrome contributions to germination as a function of seed-maturation environment.” The New Phytologist 177, no. 2 (January 2008): 367–79. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02281.x.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen, M Shane Heschel, George C. K. Chiang, Colleen M. Butler, and Deepak Barua. “Phytochrome mediates germination responses to multiple seasonal cues.” Plant, Cell & Environment 30, no. 2 (February 2007): 202–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2006.01619.x.
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    • Ruane, L. G., and K. Donohue. “Environmental effects on pollen-pistil compatibility between Phlox cuspidata and P. drummondii (Polemoniaceae): Implications for hybridization dynamics.” American Journal of Botany 94, no. 2 (February 1, 2007): 219–27. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.94.2.219.
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    • Heschel, M Shane, Jessica Selby, Colleen Butler, Garry C. Whitelam, Robert A. Sharrock, and Kathleen Donohue. “A new role for phytochromes in temperature-dependent germination.” The New Phytologist 174, no. 4 (January 2007): 735–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02044.x.
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    • Hall, J. C., T. E. Tisdale, K. Donohue, and E. M. Kramert. “Developmental basis of an anatomical novelty: Heteroarthrocarpy in Cakile lanceolata and Erucaria erucarioides (Brassicaceae).” International Journal of Plant Sciences 167, no. 4 (July 1, 2006): 771–89. https://doi.org/10.1086/504928.
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    • Kramer, E., and K. Donohue. “You can get there from here: Traversing the adaptive landscape in snapdragons.” Science 313, no. 5789 (2006): 924–25.
    • Donohue, K. “Seeds and seasons: Interpreting germination timing in the field.” Seed Science Research 15, no. 3 (September 1, 2005): 175–87. https://doi.org/10.1079/SSR2005208.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen, Chandra R. Polisetty, and Naomi J. Wender. “Genetic basis and consequences of niche construction: plasticity-induced genetic constraints on the evolution of seed dispersal in Arabidopsis thaliana.” The American Naturalist 165, no. 5 (May 2005): 537–50. https://doi.org/10.1086/429162.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen, Lisa Dorn, Converse Griffith, EunSuk Kim, Anna Aguilera, Chandra R. Polisetty, and Johanna Schmitt. “Environmental and genetic influences on the germination of Arabidopsis thaliana in the field.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 59, no. 4 (April 2005): 740–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01750.x.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen, Lisa Dorn, Converse Griffith, EunSuk Kim, Anna Aguilera, Chandra R. Polisetty, and Johanna Schmitt. “The evolutionary ecology of seed germination of Arabidopsis thaliana: variable natural selection on germination timing.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 59, no. 4 (April 2005): 758–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01751.x.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen, Lisa Dorn, Converse Griffith, EunSuk Kim, Anna Aguilera, Chandra R. Polisetty, and Johanna Schmitt. “Niche construction through germination cueing: life-history responses to timing of germination in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 59, no. 4 (April 2005): 771–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01752.x.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen. “Niche construction through phenological plasticity: life history dynamics and ecological consequences.” The New Phytologist 166, no. 1 (April 2005): 83–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01357.x.
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    • Wender, N. J., C. R. Polisetty, and K. Donohue. “Density-dependent processes influencing the evolutionary dynamics of dispersal: A functional analysis of seed dispersal in Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae).” American Journal of Botany 92, no. 6 (January 1, 2005): 960–71. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.92.6.960.
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    • Griffith, C., E. Kim, and K. Donohue. “Life-history variation and adaptation in the historically mobile plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae) in North America.” American Journal of Botany 91, no. 6 (June 1, 2004): 837–49. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.91.6.837.
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    • Donohue, K. “Density-dependent multilevel selection in the Great Lakes sea rocket.” Ecology 85, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 180–91. https://doi.org/10.1890/02-0767.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen. “The influence of neighbor relatedness on multilevel selection in the Great Lakes sea rocket.” The American Naturalist 162, no. 1 (July 2003): 77–92. https://doi.org/10.1086/375299.
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    • Donohue, K. “Setting the stage: Phenotypic plasticity as habitat selection.” International Journal of Plant Sciences 164, no. SUPPL. 3 (January 1, 2003). https://doi.org/10.1086/368397.
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    • Heschel, M. S., K. Donohue, N. Hausmann, and J. Schmitt. “Population differentiation and natural selection for water-use efficiency in Impatiens capensis (Balsaminaceae).” International Journal of Plant Sciences 163, no. 6 (November 1, 2002): 907–12. https://doi.org/10.1086/342519.
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    • Scheiner, Samuel M., Kathleen Donohue, Lisa A. Dorn, Susan J. Mazer, and Lorne M. Wolfe. “Reducing environmental bias when measuring natural selection.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 56, no. 11 (November 2002): 2156–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00140.x.
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    • Donohue, K. “Germination timing influences natural selection on life-history characters in Arabidopsis thaliana.” Ecology 83, no. 4 (April 1, 2002): 1006–16. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1006:GTINSO]2.0.CO;2.
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    • Heschel, S. M., K. Donohue, and J. Schmitt. “Environmental stress and rates of evolution: Genetic variation and selection on water-use efficiency in Impatiens capensis.” International Journal of Plant Sciences 163 (2002): 907–12.
    • Donohue, K., E. H. Pyle, D. Messiqua, M. S. Heschel, and J. Schmitt. “Adaptive divergence in plasticity in natural populations of Impatiens capensis and its consequences for performance in novel habitats.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 55, no. 4 (April 2001): 692–702. https://doi.org/10.1554/0014-3820(2001)055[0692:adipin]2.0.co;2.
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    • Munir, J., L. A. Dorn, K. Donohue, and J. Schmitt. “The effect of maternal photoperiod on seasonal dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae).” American Journal of Botany 88, no. 7 (January 1, 2001): 1240–49. https://doi.org/10.2307/3558335.
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    • Donohue, K., D. Messiqua, E. H. Pyle, M. S. Heschel, and J. Schmitt. “Evidence of adaptive divergence in plasticity: density- and site-dependent selection on shade-avoidance responses in Impatiens capensis.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 54, no. 6 (December 2000): 1956–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb01240.x.
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    • Donohue, K., E. H. Pyle, D. Messiqua, M. S. Heschel, and J. Schmitt. “Density dependence and population differentiation of genetic architecture in Impatiens capensis in natural environments.” Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution 54, no. 6 (December 2000): 1969–81. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb01241.x.
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    • Hahn, T., K. Michael Cummings, L. Duffy, A. Michalek, K. Donohue, L. Ford, and P. McCarthy. “Quantitative modelling to predict candidates for outpatient blood and/or marrow transplantation (BMT).” Blood 96, no. 11 PART II (December 1, 2000).
    • Donohue, K., D. R. Foster, and G. Motzkin. “Effects of the past and the present on species distribution: Land-use history and demography of wintergreen.” Journal of Ecology 88, no. 2 (May 15, 2000): 303–16. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00441.x.
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    • Donohue, K. “Seed dispersal as a maternally influenced character: Mechanistic basis of maternal effects and selection on maternal characters in an annual plant.” American Naturalist 154, no. 6 (December 1, 1999): 674–89. https://doi.org/10.1086/303273.
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    • Donohue, K., and J. Schmitt. “The genetic architecture of plasticity to density in Impatiens capensis.” Evolution 53, no. 5 (January 1, 1999): 1377–86. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1999.tb05402.x.
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    • Donohue, K. “Maternal determinants of seed dispersal in Cakile edentula: Fruit, plant, and site traits.” Ecology 79, no. 8 (January 1, 1998): 2771–88. https://doi.org/10.2307/176516.
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    • Donohue, K. “Effects of inbreeding on traits that influence dispersal and progeny density in Cakile edentula var. lacustris (Brassicaceae).” American Journal of Botany 85, no. 5 (January 1, 1998): 661–68. https://doi.org/10.2307/2446535.
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    • Donohue, K. “Seed dispersal in Cakile edentula var. lacustris: Decoupling the fitness effects of density and distance from the home site.” Oecologia 110, no. 4 (May 1, 1997): 520–27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420050189.
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    • Watt, W. B., K. Donohue, and P. A. Carter. “Adaptation at specific loci. VI. Divergence vs. parallelism of polymorphic allozymes in molecular function and fitness-component effects among Colias species (Lepidoptera, Pieridae).” Molecular Biology and Evolution 13, no. 5 (January 1, 1996): 699–709. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025631.
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    • Donohue, K. “The spatial demography of mistletoe parasitism on a Yemeni Acacia.” International Journal of Plant Sciences 156, no. 6 (December 1, 1995): 816–23. https://doi.org/10.1086/297305.
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    • Watt, W. B., P. A. Carter, and K. Donohue. “Females' choice of "good genotypes" as mates is promoted by an insect mating system.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 233, no. 4769 (September 1986): 1187–90. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.3738528.
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    • Shaw, E., R. Fowler, M. J. Bayly, R. A. Barrett, P. K. Ades, J. Tibbits, Alan Strand, et al. “Explaining the worldwide distributions of two highly mobile species: Cakile edentula and C. maritima.” Journal of Biogeography, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14024.
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  • Book Sections

    • Donohue, K. “Genotype-by-Environment Interaction.” In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 186–94, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00049-4.
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    • Donohue, K. “Genotype-environment interaction, In "Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology".” edited by J. Wolf. Elsevier, 2015.
    • Donohue, K. “Development in the Wild: Phenotypic Plasticity.” In The Evolution of Plant Form, 45:321–55, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118305881.ch10.
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    • Donohue, Kathleen. “Some Evolutionary Consequences of Niche Construction with Genotype-Environment Interaction.” In Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations, 131–49. Springer Netherlands, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9005-9_9.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • BIOLOGY 293: Research Independent Study 2022
  • BIOLOGY 493: Research Independent Study 2022
  • BIOLOGY 263: Biological Responses to Climate Change 2021
  • BIOLOGY 293: Research Independent Study 2021
  • BIOLOGY 453S: Gene-Environment Interaction: Genes in an Ecological Context 2020
  • BIOLOGY 711S: Ecology Seminar 2020
  • BIOLOGY 791T: Tutorial 2020
  • BIOLOGY 841: Ecological Perspectives: Evolution to Ecosystems 2020
  • ENVIRON 702: Ecology Seminar 2020
  • ENVIRON 841: Ecological Perspectives: Evolution to Ecosystems 2020
  • EVANTH 741: Ecological Perspectives: Evolution to Ecosystems 2020
  • EVANTH 743: Ecology Seminar 2020
  • UPE 701: Ecological Perspectives: Evolution to Ecosystems 2020
  • UPE 703S: Ecology Seminar 2020
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
• 

  Presentations & Appearances

  • First International Symposium on “Genome-enabled approaches towards molecular functions in ecology and evolution”. July 9, 2014  2014
  • Invited Seminar for Workshop on Frontiers of Niche Construction. Santa Fe Institute. July 9, 2014  2014
  • Departmental Seminar. October 1, 2013  2013
  • Invited Seminar: Pleiotropy in the wild. September 1, 2010  2010
  • Invited Plenary Speaker, Seed Ecology III Meetings, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2010.. July 1, 2010  2010
  • Contributed paper. June 1, 2010  2010
  • Keynote symposium speaker, European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Symposium on "The evolution of threshold, inducible and polyphenic traits.” Turin, Italy. 2009.. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Completing the cycle: maternal effects as the missing link in plant life histories. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Ecological genetics and life-history variation in Arabidopsis thaliana.. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Genetics of life-history variation in an annual plant: A phenological perspective. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Season: What it means to a seed. Brown University. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Seeds and season: Germination and life-history variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. December 4, 2008  2008
  • The ecological genetics of germination in a familiar weed.. December 4, 2008  2008
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Unknown. Mentor for high-school students: independent summer research. December 4, 2013  2013
  • Mentor labs for Learning. Education outreach. November 26, 2012  2012
  • Mentor, Summer research opportunity for high-school students, through EXP Advanced Research Program. Education outreach. November 26, 2012  2012
  • Unknown. Lab members participated in Darwin's Birthday celebration at NC Botanical Society: lecture. December 1, 2011  2011
  • Unknown. Mentor, Labs for Learning; summer research program for underprivileged NC high school students. December 1, 2011  2011
  • Mentor. Mentor, North Carolina Project Seed. November 12, 2010  2010
  • Unknown. Council Member, Society for the Study of Evolution. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Unknown. Editorial Board: American Naturalist. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Unknown. Editorial Board: Evolution. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Unknown. Executive Committee American Society of Naturalists: Treasurer. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Unknown. External Evaluator for Habilitation a Diriger des Recerches, University of Montpellier, France (like tenure review). December 21, 2009  2009
  • Unknown. Grant review for EuroCores. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Unknown. Hamilton Award Committee: Society for the Study of Evolution. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Unknown. Reviewer for Jeffress Memorial Trust Research Awards. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Unknown. Travel Award Committee: American Society of Naturalists. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Member of the Council. Society for the Study of Evolution. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Treasurer-Elect. American Society of Naturalists. December 4, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Participant. Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism. Duke Office of Faculty Advancement. January 11, 2021 - January 14, 2021  2021
  • Reviewer for numerous journals. December 4, 2013  2013
  • Panel member NSF-DEB. November 26, 2012  2012
  • Editorial Board Member for Evolution. December 1, 2011  2011
  • Editorial Board Member, BioScience. December 1, 2011  2011
  • External Examiner for dissertation: University of Oulu. December 1, 2011  2011
  • External Examiner for Habilitation, Montpellier, France. November 30, 2010  2010
  • Ad Hoc reviewer for European Research Council. November 12, 2010  2010
  • Associate Editor, American Naturalist : Editorial boards. November 12, 2010  2010
  • Associate Editor, BioScience : Editorial boards. November 12, 2010  2010
  • Associate Editor, Evolution : Editorial boards. November 12, 2010  2010
  • Reviewer for multiple journals. November 12, 2010  2010
  • Associate Editor, Evolution : Editorial Board. 2010  2010
  • BioScience : Editorial Board. 2010  2010
  • Grants reviewed for NSF research panels. December 21, 2009  2009
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Evolutionary Biology : Editorial board. July 1, 2009  2009
  • Evolution. 2009  2009
  • Member of Hamilton Award Committee, Society for the Study of Evolution. 2009  2009
  • Travel Awards Chair, American Society of Naturalists. 2009 - 2012  2009 - 2012
  • Treasurer : Executive Board Member, American Society of Naturalists. 2009  2009
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer for professional journals. December 5, 2008  2008
  • AE : American Naturalist. December 4, 2008  2008
  • AE : BioScience. December 4, 2008  2008
  • AE : Evolution. December 4, 2008  2008
  • AE : Journal of Evolutionary Biology. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer for professional journals. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Ad hoc reviewer for NSF. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Chair, Hamilton Awards Committtee, Society for the Study of Evolution. 2008  2008

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