Kathleen Donohue, Professor  

Kathleen Donohue

We investigate the genetic basis of adaptation, including the evolution of phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects, the adaptive value of epigenetic modifications, niche construction, dispersal, and mechanisms of multilevel natural selection.

Education:
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1993
M.S., Stanford University, 1985
B.S., Stanford University, 1985
B.A., Stanford University, 1985

Office Location: 130 Science Drive, Room 226, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: k.donohue@duke.edu
Web Page: http://biology.duke.edu/donohuelab

Specialties:
Evolution
Ecology and Population Biology
Genetics

Research Categories: Evolutionary ecology and genetics of natural plant populations, genetic basis of adaptation, gene-environment interactions

Research Description: We investigate the genetic basis of adaptation, including the evolution of phenotypic plasticity and maternal effects, niche construction, dispersal, and mechanisms of multilevel natural selection.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Donohue, K, Darwin's Finches Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm (June, 2011), pp. 492 pages, University of Chicago Press  [abs].
  2. Huang, ; X, ; Schmitt, J; Dorn, L; Griffith, C; Effgen, S; Takao, S; Koornneef, M; Donohue, K, The earliest stages of adaptation in an experimental plant population: strong selection on QTLs for seed dormancy., Molecular Ecology, vol. 19 no. 7 (2010), pp. 1335-1351 [doi]  [abs].
  3. Donohue, K; Rubio De Casas, R; Burghardt, L; Kovach, K; Willis, CG, Germination, postgermination adaptation, and species ecological ranges, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, vol. 41 no. 1 (December, 2010), pp. 293-319, ANNUAL REVIEWS [doi]  [abs].
  4. Chiang, GCK; Barua, D; Kramer, EM; Amasino, RM; Donohue, K, Major flowering time gene, flowering locus C, regulates seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 106 no. 28 (July, 2009), pp. 11661-11666 [doi]  [abs].
  5. Donohue, K, Completing the cycle: maternal effects as the missing link in plant life histories., Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 364 no. 1520 (April, 2009), pp. 1059-1074 [19324611], [doi]  [abs].
  6. Heschel, MS; Butler, CM; Barua, D; Chiang, GCK; Wheeler, A; Sharrock, RA; Whitelam, GC; Donohue, K, New roles of phytochromes during seed germination, International Journal of Plant Sciences, vol. 169 no. 4 (May, 2008), pp. 531-540, University of Chicago Press [doi]  [abs].
  7. Hall, JC; Tisdale, TE; Donohue, K; Kramert, EM, Developmental basis of an anatomical novelty: Heteroarthrocarpy in Cakile lanceolata and Erucaria erucarioides (Brassicaceae), International Journal of Plant Sciences, vol. 167 no. 4 (July, 2006), pp. 771-789, University of Chicago Press [doi]  [abs].
  8. Donohue, K; Dorn, L; Griffith, C; Kim, E; Aguilera, A; Polisetty, CR; Schmitt, J, Environmental and genetic influences on the germination of Arabidopsis thaliana in the field., Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, vol. 59 no. 4 (April, 2005), pp. 740-757 [doi]  [abs].
  9. Donohue, K; Dorn, L; Griffith, C; Kim, E; Aguilera, A; Polisetty, CR; Schmitt, J, The evolutionary ecology of seed germination of Arabidopsis thaliana: variable natural selection on germination timing., Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, vol. 59 no. 4 (April, 2005), pp. 758-770 [doi]  [abs].
  10. Donohue, K, Niche construction through phenological plasticity: life history dynamics and ecological consequences., The New phytologist, vol. 166 no. 1 (April, 2005), pp. 83-92 [doi]  [abs].