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Schmitt, J.
1980. Pollinator foraging behavior
and gene
dispersal in Senecio (Compositae). Evolution
34: 934-943.
Schmitt, J. 1983.
Individual flowering phenology, plant
size, and
reproductive success in Linanthus androsaceus, a California
annual. Oecologia 59:
135-140.
Schmitt, J. 1983.
Flowering plant density and pollinator
visitation in
Senecio. Oecologia 60: 97-102.
Schmitt, J. 1983.
Density dependent pollinator foraging,
flowering phenology,
and temporal pollen dispersal patterns in Linanthus
bicolor.
Evolution 37: 1247-1257.
Abbott, R. J., and J.
Schmitt. 1985. Effect of environment
on percentage of
female florets per capitulum and outcrossing potential
in a self-compatible
composite (Senecio vulgaris L. var hibernicus
Syme). New
Phytologist 101: 219-229.
Morse, D. H., and J.
Schmitt. 1985. Propagule size, dispersal
ability, and seedling
performance in Asclepias syriaca. Oecologia
67: 372-379.
Schmitt, J., D.
Ehrhardt, and D. Swartz. 1985. Differential
dispersal of
self-fertilized and outcrossed progeny in jewelweed (Impatiens
capensis).
American Naturalist 126: 570-575.
Schmitt, J., D. W.
Ehrhardt, and M. Cheo. 1986. Light-dependent
dominance and
suppression in experimental radish populations. Ecology 67:
1502-1507.
Schmitt, J., and J.
Antonovics. 1986. Experimental studies
of the evolutionary
significance of sexual reproduction. IV. The effect
of neighbor
relatedness and aphid infestation on seedling performance.
Evolution 40: 830-836.
Schmitt, J., and J.
Antonovics. 1986. Experimental studies
of the evolutionary
significance of sexual reproduction. III. Maternal
and paternal effects
during seedling establishment. Evolution 40: 817-829.
Antonovics, J., and
J. Schmitt. 1986. Paternal and maternal
effects on propagule
size in Anthoxanthum odoratum. Oecologia 69:
277-282.
Schmitt, J., J. Eccleston, and D. W. Ehrhardt.
1987. Density-dependent flowering phenology, outcrossing, and reproduction in Impatiens capensis.
Oecologia 72: 341-347.
Schmitt, J., J.
Eccleston, and D. W. Ehrhardt. 1987. Dominance and suppression, size-dependent growth, and self-thinning in
a natural Impatiens capensis population. Journal of Ecology 75:651-665.
Schmitt, J., and D.
W. Ehrhardt. 1987. A test of the
sib competition
hypothesis for outcrossing advantage in Impatiens capensis.
Evolution 41: 579-590.
Antonovics, J., K.
Clay, and J. Schmitt. 1987. The measurement
of small-scale
environmental heterogeneity using clonal transplants of
Anthoxanthum
odoratum and
Danthonia spicata. Oecologia 71: 601-607.
Kelley, S. E., J.
Antonovics, and J. Schmitt. 1988. A
test of the
short-term advantage of sexual reproduction. Nature 331: 714-716.
Schmitt, J., and S. E. Gamble. 1990. The effect
of distance from the parental site on offspring performance and inbreeding depression in Impatiens
capensis: a test of the local adaptation hypothesis. Evolution 44:2022-2030.
Schmitt, J., and D.
W. Ehrhardt. 1990. Enhancement of
inbreeding depression
by dominance and suppression in Impatiens capensis.
Evolution 44: 269-278.
Morse, D. H., and J.
Schmitt. 1991. Maternal and paternal
effects on follicle
production in the milkweed Asclepias syriaca (Asclepiadaceae).
American Journal of
Botany 78:1304-1309.
Argyres, A. Z., and J. Schmitt. 1991.
Microgeographic
genetic structure of morphological and life history traits
in a natural population of Impatiens capensis.
Evolution
45:178-189.
Bowers, M. D., S. K. Collinge, S. E. Gamble,
and
J. Schmitt. 1992. Effects of genotype, habitat, and seasonal variation
on
iridoid glycoside content of Plantago lanceolata
(Plantaginaceae)
and
the implications for insect herbivores. Oecologia 91:201-207.
Schmitt, J., J. Niles, and R. D. Wulff.
1992. Norms
of reaction of seed traits to maternal
environments in Plantago
lanceolata. American Naturalist 139:451-466.
Argyres, A. Z., and J. Schmitt. 1992. Neighbor
relatedness and competitive performance in Impatiens
capensis (Balsaminaceae):
a
test of the resource partitioning hypothesis. American Journal of
Botany
79:181-185.
Schmitt, J. 1993. Reaction norms of
morphological
and
life history traits to light availability in Impatiens
capensis.
Evolution 47:1654-1668.
O'Neil, P., and J. Schmitt. 1993. Genetic constraints
on
the independent evolution of male and female reproductive characters
in
the tristylous plant Lythrum salicaria. Evolution
47:1457-1471.
Adler, L. S., K. Wikler, F. S. Wyndham, C. R. Linder, and J. Schmitt. 1993. Potential for persistence of
genes escaped from canola: germination cues in crop, wild, and crop-wild hybrid Brassica rapa. Functional Ecology 7:736-745.
Schmitt, J., and R.D. Wulff. 1993. Light spectral
quality, phytochrome, and plant competition. Trends in
Ecology and Evolution
8:47-51.
Wulff, R.D., A. CÖceres, and J. Schmitt. 1994. Seed and
seedling
responses to maternal and offspring environments in
Plantago lanceolata.
Functional Ecology 8:763-769.
Schmitt, J., and C. R. Linder. 1994. Will escaped
transgenes lead to ecological release? Molecular Ecology
3:71-73.
Linder, C. R., and J. Schmitt. 1994. Assessing
the
risks of transgene escape through time and crop-wild hybrid
persistence.
Molecular Ecology 3:23-30.
Young, K.A., and J. Schmitt. 1995. Genetic variation
and
phenotypic plasticity of pollen release and capture height in
Plantago
lanceolata. Functional Ecology 9:725-733.
Schmitt, J., A.C. McCormac, and H. Smith. 1995.
A
test of the adaptive plasticity hypothesis using transgenic and mutant
plants disabled in phytochrome-mediated elongation responses
to neighbors.
American Naturalist 146:937-953.
Purrington, C.B., and J. Schmitt. 1995. Sexual
dimorphism of dormancy and survivorship in buried seeds of
Silene
latifolia. Journal of Ecology 5:795-800.
Dudley, S.A., and J. Schmitt. 1995. Genetic differentiation
in
morphological responses to simulated foliage shade between populations
of
Impatiens capensis from open and woodland sites. Functional
Ecology 9:655-666.
Linder, C.R., and J. Schmitt. 1995. Potential
persistence of escaped transgenes: seed and seedling
performance in transgenic
oil-modified canola and wild x canola hybrids. Ecological
Applications
5:1056-1068.
Schmitt, J. 1995. Genotype-environment interaction,
parental effects, and the evolution of plant reproductive
traits. In
Experimental and Molecular Approaches to Plant
Biosystematics, Peter
Hoch,
ed., Monographs in Systematic Botany, Missouri Botanical Garden
pp. 199-214.
Adler, L.S., J. Schmitt, and M.D. Bowers. 1995.
Genetic variation in defensive chemistry in
Plantago lanceolata (Plantaginaceae)
and its effect on the specialist herbivore
Junonia coenia (Nymphalidae).
Oecologia 101:75-85.
Schmitt, J., and S. A. Dudley. 1996. Testing
the
adaptive plasticity hypothesis for plant responses to neighbors.
Plant
Species Biology 11:59-67.
Dudley, S.A., and J. Schmitt. 1996. Testing the
adaptive plasticity hypothesis: density dependent selection
on manipulated
stem
length in Impatiens capensis. American Naturalist 147:445-465.
Schmitt, J. 1997. Is photomorphogenic shade avoidance adaptive?
Perspectives
from population biology. Plant, Cell & Environment 20:826-830.
Purrington, C.B., and J. Schmitt. 1998. Consequences of sexually dimorphic timing of emergence and flowering in Silene latifolia.
Journal of Ecology 86:397-404.
Donohue, K., and J. Schmitt. 1998. Maternal environmental
effects in plants:
adaptive plasticity? In T. Mousseau and C. Fox, eds., Maternal
effects as adaptations,
Oxford U. Press, pp.137-158.
Donohue,
K., and J. Schmitt. 1999. The genetic architecture of
plasticity
to density in Impatiens capensis. Evolution
53:1377-1386.
Schmitt,
J., S.A. Dudley, and M. Pigliucci. 1999. Manipulative
approaches
to testing adaptive plasticity: phytochrome-mediated shade
avoidance responses in plants. American Naturalist 154:
S43-S54.
Maliakal,
S., K. McDonnell, S.A. Dudley, and J. Schmitt. 1999. Effects of red to far-red ratio and density on biomass allocation
and gas exchange in Impatiens capensis. International Journal of Plant Science 160:723-733.
Pigliucci, M., K. Cammell, and J. Schmitt. 1999. Evolution of phenotypic
plasticity: a comparative approach in the phylogenetic neighborhood of Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of
Evolutionary Biology 12:779-791.
Pigliucci,
M., and J. Schmitt. 1999. Genes affecting phenotypic
plasticity
in Arabidopsis: pleiotropic effects and reproductive fitness
of photomorphogenic mutants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
12:551-562.
Munir,
J., L.A. Dorn, K. Donohue, and J.Schmitt. 2000. The effect
of maternal photoperiod on seasonal dormancy in Arabidopsis
thaliana. American Journal of Botany 88: 1240-1249.
Dorn,
L.A., E. Hammond Pyle, and J. Schmitt. 2000. Plasticity
to light cues and resources in Arabidopsis thaliana:
testing for adaptive value and costs. Evolution 54(6):
1982-1994.
Donohue,
K., E. Hammond Pyle, D. Messiqua, M. S. Heschel, and J.
Schmitt. 2000. Density dependence and population
differentiation
of genetic architecture in Impatiens capensis in
natural environments. Evolution 54(6):1969-1981.
Donohue,
K., D. Messiqua, E. Hammond Pyle, M.S.
Heschel, and J.
Schmitt. 2000. Evidence of adaptive
divergence in plasticity:
density- and site-dependent selection on
shade avoidance
responses in Impatiens capensis.
Evolution, 54(6):
1956-1968.
Ackerly,
D.A., S.A. Dudley, S.E. Sultan, J. Schmitt, J.S. Coleman,
R. Linder, D.R. Sandquist, M.A. Geber, A.S. Evans, T.E.
Dawson, and M.J. Lechowicz. 2000. The evolution of plant
ecophysiological traits: recent advances and future
directions.
Bioscience 50(11):979-995.
Dixon,
P., C. Weinig, and J. Schmitt. 2001.
Susceptibility to UV damage in Impatiens
capensis (Balsaminaceae): testing for
opportunity costs to shade-avoidance
and population differentiation. American
Journal of Botany 88: 1401-1408.
Donohue
K, Pyle EH, Messiqua D, Heschel MS, Schmitt
J. 2001.
Adaptive divergence in plasticity in natural
populations
of Impatiens capensis and its
consequences for
performance in novel habitats. Evolution
55(4):692-702.
Weinig,C., M.C. Ungerer, L.A. Dorn, N.C. Kane, S.S.
Halldorsdottir, Y.
Toyonaga, T.F.C. Mackay, M.D. Purugganan, and
J. Schmitt. 2002.
Novel loci control reproductive timing in
Arabidopsis thaliana in
natural environments. Genetics 162:1875-1884.
Heschel,
M.S., K.Donohue, N. Hausmann, and J. Schmitt.
2002. Population
differentiation and natural selection for
water-use efficiency
in Impatiens capensis. International Journal
of Plant
Science 163:907-912.
Pigliucci,
M., and J. Schmitt. 2003. Phenotypic plasticity
in response to foliar and neutral shade in
gibberellin mutants of
Arabidopsis thaliana. Evolutionary Ecology
Research, 6:1-17.
Schmitt, J., J.R. Stinchcombe, M.S. Heschel, and H. Huber. 2003.
The adaptive evolution of plasticity: phytochrome-mediated shade avoidance responses. Integrative and Comparative
Biology, 43:459-469.
Gravuer,
K, E.J. von Wettberg, and J. Schmitt. 2003.
Dispersal
biology of Liatris scariosa var.
novae-angliae
(Asteraceae), a rare New England
grassland perennial.
American Journal of Botany 90:1159-1167.
Weinig,
C., J.R. Stinchcombe, and J. Schmitt. 2003.
Evolutionary
genetics of resistance and tolerance to
herbivory in
Arabidopsis thaliana. Evolution 57:1270-1280.
Weinig, C., , L.A. Dorn, N.C. Kane, M.C. Ungerer,
S.S. Halldorsdottir, Z.M. German, Y. Toyonaga, T.F.C. Mackay, M.D. Purugganan,
and J. Schmitt. 2003. Heterogeneous selection at specific loci in natural environments in Arabidopsis
thaliana. Genetics 165:321-329.
Weinig,
C., J.R. Stinchcombe, and J. Schmitt 2003.
QTL architecture
of resistance and tolerance traits in
Arabidopsis
thaliana in natural environments.
Molecular Ecology
12: 1153-1163
Stinchcombe, J.R., L.A. Dorn, and J. Schmitt. 2004.
Flowering time plasticity in Arabidopsis
thaliana: a reanalysis
of Westerman and Lawrence (1970). Journal of
Evolutionary Biology,
17:197-207.
Stinchcombe, J.R., C. Weinig, M. Ungerer, K.M. Olsen, C. Mays, S.S. Halldorsdottir, M.D. Purugganan, and J.
Schmitt. 2004. A latitudinal cline in flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana modulated by the flowering time gene FRIGIDA. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Science 101: 4712-4717.
Huber, H., N. Kane, M.S. Heschel, E. J. von Wettberg, J. Banta, A.-M. Leuck, and J. Schmitt. 2004. Frequency and microenvironmental
pattern of selection on plastic shade avoidance traits in a natural
population of Impatiens capensis. American Naturalist, 163:548-563.
Heschel, M. S., J.R. Stinchcombe, K.E. Holsinger, and J. Schmitt. 2004. Natural selection on light response curve
parameters in the herbaceous annual Impatiens capensis. Oecologia, 139:487-494.
Weinig, C., and J. Schmitt. 2004. Environmental effects on quantitative trait loci and implications for phenotypic trait evolution. Bioscience 54: 627-634.
Olsen, K.M., S.S. Halldorsdottir, J.R. Stinchcombe, C. Weinig, J. Schmitt, and M.D. Purugganan. 2004. Linkage disequilibrium mapping of
Arabidopsis CRY2 flowering time alleles. Genetics 167: 1361-1369.
Jackson, M.W., J.R. Stinchcombe, T.M. Korves, and J. Schmitt 2004. Costs and benefits of cold tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular
Ecology 13:3609-3615.
Caicedo, A.L., J.R. Stinchcombe, K.M. Olsen, J. Schmitt, and M. D. Purugganan. 2004. Epistatic interaction between the Arabidopsis
FRI and FLC flowering time genes generates a latitudinal cline in a life history trait. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 101:15670-15675.
Weinig, C., K. Gravuer, N. Kane, and J. Schmitt 2004.
Testing adaptive plasticity to UV: costs and benefits to stem elongation and light-induced
phenolics. Evolution, 58:2645-2656.
Gravuer, K, E.J. von Wettberg, and J. Schmitt. 2004.
Population
differentiation and genetic variation inform translocation
decisions for Liatris
scariosa var. novae-angliae, a rare New England
grassland perennial.
Biological Conservation, 124:155-167.
Kelley, J. L., J.R.
Stinchcombe, C.Weinig, and J. Schmitt.
2004. Hard and soft
selection on plant defense traits in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Evolutionary Ecology
Research, in press.
Von Wettberg, E.J.,
and J. Schmitt. 2005. Physiological
mechanism of
population differentiation in shade avoidance responses
of Impatiens
capensis. American Journal of Botany, 92:868-874.
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