Mimulus Community

General Info

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

Labs

• John Willis
• Lila Fishman
• Toby Bradshaw
• Kermit Ritland
• Doug Schemske
• Quentin Cronk
• Paul Beardsley
• Bob Vickery
• John Kelly
• Randall Mitchell
• Jeffery Karron
• Mark Macnair

Post-Docs

Megan Hall, Andrea Case, Amy Angert, Carrie Wu, Amy Bouck

Grad Students

Duke

Arielle Cooley, Young-Wa Lee, Andrea Sweigart, David Lowry, Kevin Wright

University of Washington

Christina Pince, Kristy Brady

Mimulus web sites

• Mark MacNair's collection of strange Mimulus guttatus relatives from California
• The Willis Lab is quite excited about the release of the whole genome of Mimulus guttatus next summer. Updates are avaliable on the Clemson University Genomics Institute website.
• Mimulus Biological Resource Center
• Mimulus Flora of China
• Biodiversity