Mimulus Community

Mimulus guttatus

General Info

The genus Mimulus (historically "Scrophulariaceae," order Lamiales) has been a model plant system for ecological and evolutionary genetics for over 50 years (Vickery, 1951). Check out the poster of the phylogeny of the Mimulus genus.

Mimulus guttatus

The Mimulus guttatus species complex (yellow monkey flowers) is a group of closely related species exhibiting the common evolutionary transition from outcrossing to self-pollination. Mimulus presents an excellent model system for studies of evolution because of its broad diversity of floral morphologies, incomplete reproductive barriers, and its amenability to experimental manipulation.

People

Mimulus lewisii and Mimulus cardinalis with hybrids

Labs John Willis Lila Fishman Toby Bradshaw Todd Vision Kermit Ritland Doug Schemske Quentin Cronk Paul Beardsley Bob Vickery John Kelly Randall Mitchell Jeffery Karron Mark Macnair Andrea Case

Post-Docs Megan Hall Amy Angert Carrie Wu Amy Bouck Matt Streisfeld

Grad Students Arielle Cooley Young-Wa Lee Andrea Sweigart David Lowry Kevin Wright Christina Pince Kristy Brady Jason Sexton Jay Sobel

Announcements

• The FIBR meeting was Febuary 17-19, 2006.

Papers

• Vickery
• Ritland
• Beardsley
• Bradshaw
• MacNair

Techniques

• DNA Extraction Protocol
• Microsatellite recipes

Mimulus web sites

• Mimulus Biological Resource Center
• Clemson University Genomics Institute website
• Mimulus guttatus complex
• JGI annoncement of whole genome sequencing
• Mimulus Flora of China
• Biodiversity