Daniel Anstett
Postdoctoral Fellow
I am studying rapid evolution to climate change in scarlet monkeyflower, Mimulus cardinalis. In particular, I am investigating evidence of adaptation to severe drought throughout California and Oregon, using range-wide seed collections spanning six years. This is done by measuring resistance to drought throughout and traits that mediate drought performance in a greenhouse. These results will be placed in demographic models to associated real population demography with adaptive evolution. I will also be measuring evolution to drought at the molecular level through next-generation sequencing approaches.
I am also interested in the biogeography of species interactions and continental differences in the traits that mediate these interactions. In particular I have studied latitudinal gradients in herbivory and plant defence throughout my Ph.D. I am also actively involved in studying plant chemical defence evolution in Onagraceae, and evolution of chemical defence genes across latitudinal gradients.
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- Expansion dynamics and marginal climates drive adaptation across geographic ranges (2020)
- Ellagitannins from the Onagraceae Decrease the Performance of Generalist and Specialist Herbivores (2019)
Journal of Chemical Ecology, 45 (1), 86--94 - Testing for latitudinal gradients in defense at the macroevolutionary scale (2018)
Evolution, 72 (10), 2129--2143
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