Ruth G Shaw

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Affiliation: University of Minnesota
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Genetic components of variation in Nemophila menziesii undergoing inbreeding: morphology and flowering time
    R G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
    Genetics 150:1649-61. 1998
  2. ncbi Spontaneous mutational effects on reproductive traits of arabidopsis thaliana
    R G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
    Genetics 155:369-78. 2000
  3. ncbi Inferring fitness landscapes
    Ruth G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and Minnesota Center for Community Genetics, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    Evolution 64:2510-20. 2010
  4. ncbi Gene action of new mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana
    Ruth G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul 55108 6097, USA
    Genetics 172:1855-65. 2006
  5. ncbi Unifying life-history analyses for inference of fitness and population growth
    Ruth G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Minnesota Center for Community Genetics, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
    Am Nat 172:E35-47. 2008
  6. ncbi Role of climate and competitors in limiting fitness across range edges of an annual plant
    John Stanton-Geddes
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
    Ecology 93:1604-13. 2012
  7. ncbi The effect of plant inbreeding and stoichiometry on interactions with herbivores in nature: Echinacea angustifolia and its specialist aphid
    Caroline E Ridley
    Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e24762. 2011
  8. ncbi Stress and domestication traits increase the relative fitness of crop-wild hybrids in sunflower
    Kristin L Mercer
    Applied Plant Sciences Program, University of Minnesota, 411 Borlaug Hall, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    Ecol Lett 10:383-93. 2007
  9. ncbi Interactions between soil habitat and geographic range location affect plant fitness
    John Stanton-Geddes
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 7:e36015. 2012
  10. ncbi Strong ecological but weak evolutionary effects of elevated CO2 on a recombinant inbred population of Arabidopsis thaliana
    Jennifer A Lau
    Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, 250 Biosciences, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    New Phytol 175:351-62. 2007

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Publications17

  1. ncbi Genetic components of variation in Nemophila menziesii undergoing inbreeding: morphology and flowering time
    R G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
    Genetics 150:1649-61. 1998
    ..Moreover, inbreeding depression alone does not generally account for the reduction in selection response...
  2. ncbi Spontaneous mutational effects on reproductive traits of arabidopsis thaliana
    R G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
    Genetics 155:369-78. 2000
    ....
  3. ncbi Inferring fitness landscapes
    Ruth G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and Minnesota Center for Community Genetics, University of Minnesota, 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    Evolution 64:2510-20. 2010
    ..Further, to evaluate selection when many traits are under consideration, we recommend model selection by information criteria and frequentist model averaging...
  4. ncbi Gene action of new mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana
    Ruth G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul 55108 6097, USA
    Genetics 172:1855-65. 2006
    ....
  5. ncbi Unifying life-history analyses for inference of fitness and population growth
    Ruth G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Minnesota Center for Community Genetics, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
    Am Nat 172:E35-47. 2008
    ..Aster models offer a unified approach to addressing the breadth of questions in evolution and ecology for which life-history data are gathered...
  6. ncbi Role of climate and competitors in limiting fitness across range edges of an annual plant
    John Stanton-Geddes
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
    Ecology 93:1604-13. 2012
    ....
  7. ncbi The effect of plant inbreeding and stoichiometry on interactions with herbivores in nature: Echinacea angustifolia and its specialist aphid
    Caroline E Ridley
    Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 6:e24762. 2011
    ....
  8. ncbi Stress and domestication traits increase the relative fitness of crop-wild hybrids in sunflower
    Kristin L Mercer
    Applied Plant Sciences Program, University of Minnesota, 411 Borlaug Hall, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    Ecol Lett 10:383-93. 2007
    ..Rigorous assessment of how particular genotypes, phenotypes, and environments affect introgression will improve risk assessment for transgenic crops...
  9. ncbi Interactions between soil habitat and geographic range location affect plant fitness
    John Stanton-Geddes
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 7:e36015. 2012
    ..g. competitors) between substrates...
  10. ncbi Strong ecological but weak evolutionary effects of elevated CO2 on a recombinant inbred population of Arabidopsis thaliana
    Jennifer A Lau
    Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, 250 Biosciences, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    New Phytol 175:351-62. 2007
    ..The data suggest that patterns of natural selection and the quantitative genetic parameters of this A. thaliana population are robust to increases in CO2 concentration and that responses to eCO2 will be primarily ecological...
  11. ncbi Effects of competition on the fitness of wild and crop-wild hybrid sunflower from a diversity of wild populations and crop lines
    Kristin L Mercer
    Applied Plant Sciences Program, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
    Evolution 60:2044-55. 2006
    ..This research is the first study of its kind to demonstrate that the consequences of crop-wild gene flow are context dependent and contingent on the genetics of the specific wild populations and the local biotic and abiotic conditions...
  12. ncbi Insights from population genetics for range limits of a widely distributed native plant
    John Stanton-Geddes
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, 100 Ecology Building, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108 USA
    Am J Bot 100:744-53. 2013
    ..fasciculata. Further, they highlight challenges in using molecular data to make inferences about species' distributions that have complex demographic histories...
  13. ncbi A comprehensive model of mutations affecting fitness and inferences for Arabidopsis thaliana
    Frank H Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul 55108, USA
    Evolution 56:453-63. 2002
    ..thaliana than expected from the process of mutational meltdown. A comprehensive view of the evolutionary consequences of mutation will depend on quantitatively accounting for fitness-enhancing, as well as fitness-reducing, mutations...
  14. ncbi Rapid climate change and the rate of adaptation: insight from experimental quantitative genetics
    Ruth G Shaw
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
    New Phytol 195:752-65. 2012
    ..We outline further research that can clarify both the adaptive potential of plant populations as climate continues to change and the role played by ongoing adaptation in their persistence...
  15. ncbi The contribution of spontaneous mutation to variation in environmental response in Arabidopsis thaliana: responses to nutrients
    Shu Mei Chang
    Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 7271, USA
    Evolution 57:984-94. 2003
    ..These results suggest that other evolutionary mechanisms play a more important role than spontaneous mutation alone in establishing the GEI found for wild collections and lab accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana in previous studies...
  16. ncbi The fitness effects of outcrossing in Calylophus serrulatus, a permanent translocation heterozygote
    David A Heiser
    Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
    Evolution 60:64-76. 2006
    ..It appears that mean fitness in this species is maintained in the context of severe fragmentation of its populations, largely because of its genetic system...
  17. ncbi The contribution of spontaneous mutation to variation in environmental responses of Arabidopsis thaliana: responses to light
    Christina M Kavanaugh
    Monsanto Company, Madison, Wisconsin 53562, USA
    Evolution Int J Org Evolution 59:266-75. 2005
    ..thaliana are not explicable primarily as a consequence of steady input of spontaneous mutations having environment-specific effects...