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California State University, Monterey Bay: Assistant Professor          2014


==About Me==
The University of Texas at Austin: USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow,    2010-2013


Duke University:                          PhD,                        2004-2010


[[Image:Evolution_cover.jpg|thumb|left|Photo by David Lowry]]
The University of California, Berkeley:   BS,                        1997-2001


I am a new postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin working on the genetics of adaptation and drought tolerance in switchgrass (''Panicum'').  The goals of this project are to understand the evolutionary genetic and genomic mechanism responsible for abiotic stress tolerance in this group of grasses and to leverage this knowledge to eventually create higher yielding bioenergy crops that will require minimal water inputs.  This is an important goal, as there is often a trade-off between alternative energy sources, such as biofuels, and ever diminishing water resources.
==Research Interests==


The focus of my dissertation research was directed toward understanding the genetics of adaptation and speciation.  To this end, I chose to study how divergent adaptation of the yellow monkey flower (''Mimulus guttatus''), to the coast versus inland habitat, contributes to reproductive isolation.  I used a combination of QTL mapping and candidate gene strategies to determine the genetic mechanisms that underlie the divergence of morphological and life-history traits between coast and inland ''Mimulus guttatus''.  Further, I carried out reciprocal transplant experiments and population genetic analysis to demonstrate that coast and inland ''Mimulus'' are locally adapted and reproductively isolatedI also conducted a more recent reciprocal transplant experiment with near isogenic lines to test hypotheses of local adaptation and introgression between ecogeographic racesIn addition, I conducted genetic analysis of flowering time under different light conditions, anthocyanin production in vegetative tissues, and ion accumulationFinally, I was involved with multiple aspects of the ''Mimulus guttatus'' genome project.
[[Image:Perdenales.jpg|thumb|left|Switchgrass in its native riparian habitat in central Texas]]
[[Image:Lowry_field_2.JPG|thumb|right|Field experiment with ''Mimulus guttatus'']]
 
'''The genetics of adaptation and speciation'''
 
Adaptation is the most fundamental way that the environment can change the phenotypes of organisms.  Adaptations can also lead to the formation of reproductive isolating barriers, which are the building blocks of new species.  I am very interested in understanding the genetic underpinnings of reproductive isolation at various stages in the speciation process.
 
Understanding adaptation is also crucial to predicting how organisms will respond to future global change and will help inform management decisions as well as guide future agricultural breeding.
 
'''Landscape evolutionary genomics'''
 
One of the core goals of my research program is to understand how the natural landscape molds the genomes of organisms through adaptationTo that end, I am using a combination of genetic mapping and genome sequencing approaches to identify genes involved with adaptation to the heterogeneity of the natural landscape.  During my dissertation, I focused on how adaptive alleles in ''Mimulus guttatus'' are spread across the landscape and what phenotypic effects they have in different environments across western North AmericaCurrently, I am developing ''Panicum'' grasses as a model system to understand adaptation along a longitudinal soil moisture cline across Southwestern United States and a latitudinal temperature cline across the Great Plains. Our lab recently [http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/08/02/biologist-grant-study-potential-biofuel-crops/ received funding from the Department of Energy] to develop ''Panicum hallii'' as a model system for local adaptation and bioenergy research.   
 
[[Image:Diversity.JPG|thumb|left|Phenotypic diversity of Switchgrass, ''Panicum virgatum'']]
[[Image:Field_2012.JPG|thumb|right|Field experiment with ''Panicum hallii'']]
 
'''Using evolutionary biology to improve bioenergy crops'''
 
Civilization is built on a foundation of domesticated grassesWithout those grasses (corn, wheat, rice, oats, barley, sorghum) there would be no ballet and human beings would never of landed on the moonPlant breeders have quietly worked in the shadows to increase the yield of crops and in turn maintain our modern world.
 
Now, there may actually be potential to domesticate a new set of grass species to use to help combat the growing energy problem.  My research is focused understanding the factors involved in local adaptation in the bioenergy crop switchgrass (''Panicum virgatum'').  Loci involved in local adaptation are likely to be of high value to crop breeders interested in improving drought, heat, cold, herbivore, and disease tolerance.


==Publications==
==Publications==


[[Image:PhilTransCover.jpg|thumb|right|Photo by David Lowry]]
[[Image:PLoS.jpg|thumb|left|Cover photo for PLoS Biology]]  


Lowry, D. B. A brief history of local adaptation and 'stages in the evolution of plant species.' ''In prep''
[[Image:PhilTransCover.jpg|thumb|right|]]


Lowry, D. B., C. Sheng, J.H. Willis.  Genetics of variation in four vegetative anthocyanin phenotypes in ''Mimulus guttatus''. ''In prep''
'''PDFs for publications available through my''' [http://davidbryantlowry.wordpress.com/publications/ '''website''']


Lowry, D.B., J. H. Willis. A widespread chromosomal inversion polymorphism contributes to a major life-history transition, local adaptation, and reproductive isolation. ''In review''
'''Lowry, D. B.''', K. Hernandez, S. H. Taylor, E. Meyer, T. L. Logan, J. A. Chapman, D. S. Rokhsar, J. Schmutz, T. E. Juenger. The genetics of divergence and reproductive isolation between ecotypes of ''Panicum hallii''. ''In revision''  


Lowry, D. B., S. R. Kirshenbaum. Fulfilling the promises of a transgenic future. ''In review''
Aspinwall, M. J., S. H. Taylor, '''D. B. Lowry''', P. A. Fay, A. Khasanova, J. Bonnette, B. K. Whitaker, N. S. Johnson, C. V. Hawkes, T. E. Juenger. Physiological plasticity among differentially adapted genotypes of a widespread C4 grass under altered precipitation. ''In review''


Hall M. C., D. B. Lowry, J. H. Willis. (2010).  Multiple independent genetic loci control local adaptation in wild populations of ''Mimulus guttatus''. Molecular Ecology. ''In press''
Meyer, E., M. J. Aspinwall, '''D. B. Lowry''', J. Palacio-Mejía, T. L. Logan, P. A. Fay, T. E. Juenger. (2014) Integrating physiological, transcriptional, and metabolomic responses to drought stress and recovery in switchgrass (''Panicum virgatum'' L.). BMC Genomics. ''In press''


[http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/01/22/rsbl.2009.0969.full Lowry, D. B. (2010) Landscape evolutionary genomics. Biology Letters. ''In press'']
[http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/21/molbev.msu170.abstract Lasky, J. R., D. L. Des Marais, '''D. B. Lowry''', I. Povolotskaya, J. K. McKay, J. H. Richards, T. H. Keitt, T. E. Juenger. (2014) Natural variation in abiotic stress responsive gene expression is associated with local adaptation to climate in ''Arabidopsis thaliana.'' Molecular Biology and Evolution ''In press'']


[http://www.springerlink.com/content/vm4456721023284g/ Wu, C. A., D. B. Lowry, L. I. Nutter, J. H. Willis. (2010) Natural variation for drought response in the ''Mimulus guttatus'' species complex. Oecologia 162: 23-33]  
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.12778/abstract Oneal, E., '''D. B. Lowry''', K. M. Wright, Z. Zhu, J. H. Willis. (2014) Divergent population structure and climate associations of a chromosomal inversion polymorphism across the ''Mimulus guttatus'' species complex. Molecular Ecology. ''In press'']  


[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122462935/abstract Lowry, D. B., M. C. Hall, D. E. Salt, J. H. Willis. (2009). Genetic and physiological basis of adaptive salt tolerance divergence between coastal and inland ''Mimulus guttatus.'' New Phytologist  183: 776-788]
[http://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/VPLowry.html '''Lowry, D. B.''', K. D. Behrman, P. Grabowski, G. P. Morris, J. R. Kiniry, T. E. Juenger. (2014) Adaptation between ecotypes and along environmental gradients in ''Panicum virgatum.'' The American Naturalist. 183: 682-692.]


[http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/363/1506/3009.long Lowry, D. B., J. L. Modliszewski, K. M. Wright, C. A. Wu, J. H. Willis. (2008). The strength and genetic basis of reproductive isolating barriers in flowering plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 3009-3021]
[http://www.plantcell.org/content/early/2013/09/16/tpc.113.115352.short?keytype=ref&ijkey=6c6d7ZU4jKR8aPZ '''Lowry, D. B.''', T. L. Logan, L. Santuari, C. S. Hardtke, J. H. Richards, L. J. DeRose-Wilson, J. K. McKay, S. Sen, T. E. Juenger. (2013) Expression QTL mapping across water availability environments reveals contrasting associations with genomic features in ''Arabidopsis thaliana''. The Plant Cell 25: 3266–3279.]


[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120775240/abstract Lowry, D. B., R. C. Rockwood, J. H. Willis. (2008). Ecological reproductive isolation of coast and inland races of ''Mimulus guttatus''. Evolution 62: 2196-2214]
[http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10100.html '''Lowry, D. B.''', R. Hopkins. (2013) “Speciation and Natural Selection.” In J. Losos (ed.). The Princeton Guide to Evolution. Pp. 512-519. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA.]


[http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v100/n2/abs/6801018a.html Wu, C. A., D. B. Lowry, A. M. Cooley, K. M. Wright, Y. W. Lee, and J. H. Willis. (2008).  ''Mimulus'' is an emerging model system for the integration of ecological and genomic studies. Heredity 100: 220-230.]
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12341/abstract Aspinwall, M. J., '''D. B. Lowry''', S. H. Taylor, T. E. Juenger, C. V. Hawkes, M. V. Johnson, J. R. Kiniry, P. A. Fay. (2013) Genotypic variation in traits linked to climate and aboveground productivity in a widespread C4 grass: evidence for a functional trait syndrome. New Phytologist 199: 966-980.]  


==Important Things==
[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001497 Wright, K. M., D. Lloyd, '''D. B. Lowry''', M. R. Macnair, J. H. Willis. (2013) Indirect evolution of hybrid lethality due to linkage with a selected locus in ''Mimulus guttatus.'' PLoS Biology 11: e1001497] 
 
[http://www.amjbot.org/content/early/2013/02/19/ajb.1200379.abstract '''Lowry, D. B.''', C. T. Purmal, T. E. Juenger. (2013) A population genetic transect of ''Panicum hallii'' (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany. 100:592-601]
 
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04146.x/full '''Lowry D. B.''' (2012) Local adaptation in The model plant.  New Phytologist. 194: 888-890.]
 
[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01867.x/full '''Lowry, D. B.''' (2012) Ecotypes and the controversy over stages in the formation of new species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 106: 241-257.]
 
[http://www.amjbot.org/content/99/3/e114.long '''Lowry, D. B.''', C. T. Purmal, E. Meyer, T. E. Juenger. (2012) Microsatellite markers for the native Texas perennial grass,  ''Panicum hallii'' (Poaceae).  American Journal of Botany Primer Notes & Protocols. 99: e114-e116]
 
[http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030730 '''Lowry, D. B.''', C. S. Sheng, Z. Zhu, T. E. Juenger, B. Lahner, D. E. Salt, J. H. Willis. (2012) Mapping of ionomic traits in ''Mimulus guttatus'' reveals Mo and Cd QTLs that colocalize with MOT1 homologues.  PLoS One 7: e30730.]
 
[http://www.amjbot.org/content/early/2011/12/20/ajb.1100285.abstract '''Lowry, D. B.''', C. S. Sheng,, J. R. Lasky, J.H. Willis.  (2012) Five anthocyanin polymorphisms are associated with an R2R3-MYB cluster in ''Mimulus guttatus''.  American Journal of Botany 99:82-91]


* [http://web.me.com/davidbryantlowry/Site/Welcome.html My Website]
[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000500 '''Lowry, D.B.,''' J. H. Willis. (2010) A widespread chromosomal inversion polymorphism contributes to a major life-history transition, local adaptation, and reproductive isolation.  PLoS Biology 8: e1000500]
*'''Contact Info:''' You can contact me at david.lowry@duke.edu.


*[[Media:Lowry_CV.pdf|Curriculum Vitae]]
[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123501089/abstract Hall, M. C., '''D. B. Lowry''', J. H. Willis.  (2010).  Is local adaptation in ''Mimulus guttatus'' caused by trade-offs at individual loci?  Molecular Ecology.  19: 2739-2753]


*Make sure to check out the [[Mimulus Community]].
[http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/01/22/rsbl.2009.0969.full '''Lowry, D. B.''' (2010) Landscape evolutionary genomics.  Biology Letters. 6: 502-504]


==Field Sites==
[[Image:Evolution_cover.jpg|thumb|right|]]


[[Image:coast_lowry.jpg|thumb|left|Habitat of coastal ''Mimulus'']]
[http://www.springerlink.com/content/vm4456721023284g/ Wu, C. A., '''D. B. Lowry''', L. I. Nutter, J. H. Willis.  (2010)  Natural variation for drought response in the ''Mimulus guttatus'' species complex.  Oecologia 162: 23-33]  


[[Image:inland_lowry.jpg|thumb|right|Habitat of inland ''Mimulus'']]
[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122462935/abstract '''Lowry, D. B.''', M. C. Hall, D. E. Salt, J. H. Willis. (2009). Genetic and physiological basis of adaptive salt tolerance divergence between coastal and inland ''Mimulus guttatus.'' New Phytologist  183: 776-788]


*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonville,_California Boonville Inland Site]
[http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/363/1506/3009.long '''Lowry, D. B.''', J. L. Modliszewski, K. M. Wright, C. A. Wu, J. H. Willis. (2008). The strength and genetic basis of reproductive isolating barriers in flowering plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 3009-3021]
*[http://www.inn-california.com/redwoods/mendocino/Manchester/manchester.html Manchester Coastal Site]
*[http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=592 Copperopolis]
*[http://www.redshift.com/~bigcreek/ Big Creek Reserve]
*[http://www-bml.ucdavis.edu/ Bodega Marine Lab]
*[http://nrs.ucop.edu/Reserves/Angelo/Angelolinkingpage.html Angelo Reserve]
*[http://www.portrenfrew.com/botbeach.htm Botanical Beach]
*[http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/bc/gwaiihaanas/index_e.asp Gwaii Haanas]
*[http://www.bms.bc.ca/ Bamfield Marine Science Center]
*[http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/bc/pacificrim/index_e.asp Pacific Rim National Park]


==Population Genetic Software==
[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120775240/abstract '''Lowry, D. B.''', R. C. Rockwood, J. H. Willis.  (2008).  Ecological reproductive isolation of coast and inland races of ''Mimulus guttatus''. Evolution 62: 2196-2214]


[[Image:genetic_mimulus.jpg|thumb|right|Relationship of coast (blue) and inland (orange) ''Mimulus guttatus'']]
[http://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/v100/n2/abs/6801018a.html Wu, C. A., '''D. B. Lowry''', A. M. Cooley, K. M. Wright, Y. W. Lee, and J. H. Willis.  (2008)''Mimulus'' is an emerging model system for the integration of ecological and genomic studies.  Heredity 100: 220-230.]


*[http://www-timc.imag.fr/Olivier.Francois/tess.html TESS]
==Important Things==
*[http://www2.unil.ch/popgen/softwares/fstat.htm FSTAT]
*[http://www.maizegenetics.net/index.php?page=bioinformatics/tassel/index.html Tassel]
*[http://anthro.unige.ch/arlequin/ Arlequin]
*[http://pritch.bsd.uchicago.edu/structure.html Structure]
*[http://kiwi.cs.dal.ca/GenGIS/Main_Page GenGIS]
*[http://www.rubic.rdg.ac.uk/~mab/home.html Mark Beaumont]
*[http://geospatial.amnh.org/open_source/gdmg/index.html Geographic distance matrix generator]
*[http://wbiomed.curtin.edu.au/genepop/ Genepop (web)]
*[http://dyerlab.bio.vcu.edu/wiki/index.php/Software Dyerlab (Population Graphs)]
*[http://ibdws.sdsu.edu/ Isolation by Distance]
*[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/plewis/software.php Genetic Data Analysis]
*[http://www.biology.lsu.edu/general/software.html Software for Populaiton Genetic Analysis]
*[http://www.mas.ncl.ac.uk/~nijw/ Ian Wilson (Batwing)]
*[http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~heylab/HeylabSoftware.htm Jody Hey (SITES)]
*[http://www.structurama.org/index.html Structurama]
*[http://www.ub.es/dnasp/ DNASP]
*[http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/people/faculty/carbone/workbench.html SNAP]


==Abiotic Stress Websites==
*[http://davidbryantlowry.wordpress.com/ My website]


[[Image:frost_lowry.jpg|thumb|left|Frost on ''Mimulus'' flowers]]
*[http://davidbryantlowry.wordpress.com/cv/ David Lowry CV]


*[http://www.inra.fr/internet/Produits/vast/projects.htm Drought Tolerance Arabidopsis]
*[http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=yp5xdBEAAAAJ&gmla=AJsN-F6DFaPZ9A0TNBwOFnsWZf9Y9S7rGntDIzs1ZOqg52GhHzGJ090M-xxUubHEHF3dyXE6XlN-jmJ1uYNJiAULSHsEkKAaqniu606ZwKxaDjIwB3wfiIkspwU-gntSRaYs7bNl5Mmy Google Scholar Citations ]
*[http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/TsunamisAndRice/How_Do_You_Measure_Soil_Salinity_.htm How to measure soil salinity]


==Bioinformatic/Statistical Software and Resources==
*[https://github.com/davidbryantlowry Programming Scripts on Github]
*[http://www.phytozome.net/ Phytozome]
*[http://home.clara.net/sisa/bonfer.htm Bonferroni Correction Calculator]
*[http://www.fruitfly.org/annot/apollo/ Apollo]
*[http://globin.cse.psu.edu/html/docs/sim4.html sim4]
*[http://genome.ucsc.edu/ BLAT]
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/mmtrace.shtml NCBI Trace Archives]
*[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw/ ClustalW]
*[http://frodo.wi.mit.edu/cgi-bin/primer3/primer3_www.cgi Primer 3]
*[http://faculty.washington.edu/jstorey/qvalue/ Q-Value calculator]


==Analysis of fitness data==
*'''Contact Info:''' You can contact me at davidbryantlowry@gmail.com.
*[http://www.stat.umn.edu/geyer/aster/ ASTER]


==Other useful sites==
*Make sure to check out the [[Mimulus Community]] and the [[Texas Switchgrass Collaborative]].
*[http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxusx.htm Blank Outline Maps] that can be used to make figures.

Revision as of 08:40, 21 May 2014

California State University, Monterey Bay: Assistant Professor 2014

The University of Texas at Austin: USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2013

Duke University: PhD, 2004-2010

The University of California, Berkeley: BS, 1997-2001

Research Interests

Switchgrass in its native riparian habitat in central Texas
Field experiment with Mimulus guttatus

The genetics of adaptation and speciation

Adaptation is the most fundamental way that the environment can change the phenotypes of organisms. Adaptations can also lead to the formation of reproductive isolating barriers, which are the building blocks of new species. I am very interested in understanding the genetic underpinnings of reproductive isolation at various stages in the speciation process.

Understanding adaptation is also crucial to predicting how organisms will respond to future global change and will help inform management decisions as well as guide future agricultural breeding.

Landscape evolutionary genomics

One of the core goals of my research program is to understand how the natural landscape molds the genomes of organisms through adaptation. To that end, I am using a combination of genetic mapping and genome sequencing approaches to identify genes involved with adaptation to the heterogeneity of the natural landscape. During my dissertation, I focused on how adaptive alleles in Mimulus guttatus are spread across the landscape and what phenotypic effects they have in different environments across western North America. Currently, I am developing Panicum grasses as a model system to understand adaptation along a longitudinal soil moisture cline across Southwestern United States and a latitudinal temperature cline across the Great Plains. Our lab recently received funding from the Department of Energy to develop Panicum hallii as a model system for local adaptation and bioenergy research.

Phenotypic diversity of Switchgrass, Panicum virgatum
Field experiment with Panicum hallii

Using evolutionary biology to improve bioenergy crops

Civilization is built on a foundation of domesticated grasses. Without those grasses (corn, wheat, rice, oats, barley, sorghum) there would be no ballet and human beings would never of landed on the moon. Plant breeders have quietly worked in the shadows to increase the yield of crops and in turn maintain our modern world.

Now, there may actually be potential to domesticate a new set of grass species to use to help combat the growing energy problem. My research is focused understanding the factors involved in local adaptation in the bioenergy crop switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). Loci involved in local adaptation are likely to be of high value to crop breeders interested in improving drought, heat, cold, herbivore, and disease tolerance.

Publications

Cover photo for PLoS Biology

PDFs for publications available through my website

Lowry, D. B., K. Hernandez, S. H. Taylor, E. Meyer, T. L. Logan, J. A. Chapman, D. S. Rokhsar, J. Schmutz, T. E. Juenger. The genetics of divergence and reproductive isolation between ecotypes of Panicum hallii. In revision

Aspinwall, M. J., S. H. Taylor, D. B. Lowry, P. A. Fay, A. Khasanova, J. Bonnette, B. K. Whitaker, N. S. Johnson, C. V. Hawkes, T. E. Juenger. Physiological plasticity among differentially adapted genotypes of a widespread C4 grass under altered precipitation. In review

Meyer, E., M. J. Aspinwall, D. B. Lowry, J. Palacio-Mejía, T. L. Logan, P. A. Fay, T. E. Juenger. (2014) Integrating physiological, transcriptional, and metabolomic responses to drought stress and recovery in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.). BMC Genomics. In press

Lasky, J. R., D. L. Des Marais, D. B. Lowry, I. Povolotskaya, J. K. McKay, J. H. Richards, T. H. Keitt, T. E. Juenger. (2014) Natural variation in abiotic stress responsive gene expression is associated with local adaptation to climate in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Biology and Evolution In press

Oneal, E., D. B. Lowry, K. M. Wright, Z. Zhu, J. H. Willis. (2014) Divergent population structure and climate associations of a chromosomal inversion polymorphism across the Mimulus guttatus species complex. Molecular Ecology. In press

Lowry, D. B., K. D. Behrman, P. Grabowski, G. P. Morris, J. R. Kiniry, T. E. Juenger. (2014) Adaptation between ecotypes and along environmental gradients in Panicum virgatum. The American Naturalist. 183: 682-692.

Lowry, D. B., T. L. Logan, L. Santuari, C. S. Hardtke, J. H. Richards, L. J. DeRose-Wilson, J. K. McKay, S. Sen, T. E. Juenger. (2013) Expression QTL mapping across water availability environments reveals contrasting associations with genomic features in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Cell 25: 3266–3279.

Lowry, D. B., R. Hopkins. (2013) “Speciation and Natural Selection.” In J. Losos (ed.). The Princeton Guide to Evolution. Pp. 512-519. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Aspinwall, M. J., D. B. Lowry, S. H. Taylor, T. E. Juenger, C. V. Hawkes, M. V. Johnson, J. R. Kiniry, P. A. Fay. (2013) Genotypic variation in traits linked to climate and aboveground productivity in a widespread C4 grass: evidence for a functional trait syndrome. New Phytologist 199: 966-980.

Wright, K. M., D. Lloyd, D. B. Lowry, M. R. Macnair, J. H. Willis. (2013) Indirect evolution of hybrid lethality due to linkage with a selected locus in Mimulus guttatus. PLoS Biology 11: e1001497

Lowry, D. B., C. T. Purmal, T. E. Juenger. (2013) A population genetic transect of Panicum hallii (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany. 100:592-601

Lowry D. B. (2012) Local adaptation in The model plant. New Phytologist. 194: 888-890.

Lowry, D. B. (2012) Ecotypes and the controversy over stages in the formation of new species. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 106: 241-257.

Lowry, D. B., C. T. Purmal, E. Meyer, T. E. Juenger. (2012) Microsatellite markers for the native Texas perennial grass,  Panicum hallii (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany Primer Notes & Protocols. 99: e114-e116

Lowry, D. B., C. S. Sheng, Z. Zhu, T. E. Juenger, B. Lahner, D. E. Salt, J. H. Willis. (2012) Mapping of ionomic traits in Mimulus guttatus reveals Mo and Cd QTLs that colocalize with MOT1 homologues. PLoS One 7: e30730.

Lowry, D. B., C. S. Sheng,, J. R. Lasky, J.H. Willis. (2012) Five anthocyanin polymorphisms are associated with an R2R3-MYB cluster in Mimulus guttatus. American Journal of Botany 99:82-91

Lowry, D.B., J. H. Willis. (2010) A widespread chromosomal inversion polymorphism contributes to a major life-history transition, local adaptation, and reproductive isolation. PLoS Biology 8: e1000500

Hall, M. C., D. B. Lowry, J. H. Willis. (2010). Is local adaptation in Mimulus guttatus caused by trade-offs at individual loci? Molecular Ecology. 19: 2739-2753

Lowry, D. B. (2010) Landscape evolutionary genomics. Biology Letters. 6: 502-504

Wu, C. A., D. B. Lowry, L. I. Nutter, J. H. Willis. (2010) Natural variation for drought response in the Mimulus guttatus species complex. Oecologia 162: 23-33

Lowry, D. B., M. C. Hall, D. E. Salt, J. H. Willis. (2009). Genetic and physiological basis of adaptive salt tolerance divergence between coastal and inland Mimulus guttatus. New Phytologist 183: 776-788

Lowry, D. B., J. L. Modliszewski, K. M. Wright, C. A. Wu, J. H. Willis. (2008). The strength and genetic basis of reproductive isolating barriers in flowering plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 3009-3021

Lowry, D. B., R. C. Rockwood, J. H. Willis. (2008). Ecological reproductive isolation of coast and inland races of Mimulus guttatus. Evolution 62: 2196-2214

Wu, C. A., D. B. Lowry, A. M. Cooley, K. M. Wright, Y. W. Lee, and J. H. Willis. (2008). Mimulus is an emerging model system for the integration of ecological and genomic studies. Heredity 100: 220-230.

Important Things

  • Contact Info: You can contact me at davidbryantlowry@gmail.com.