Publications

Submitted, biorxiv

Whitener MR, H Mangelson, AL Sweigart. Patterns of genomic variation reveal a single evolutionary origin of the wild allotetraploid Mimulus sookensis. biorxiv.

2023

Mantel SJ and AL Sweigart. 2023. Postzygotic barriers persist despite ongoing introgression in hybridizing Mimulus species. Molecular Ecology, online.

Farnitano MC and AL Sweigart. 2023. Strong postmating reproductive isolation in Mimulus section Eunanus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36: 1393-1410.

Sotola VA, CS Berg, M Samuli, H Chen, SJ Mantel, PA Beardsley, YW Yuan, AL Sweigart, L Fishman. 2023. Genomic mechanisms and consequences of diverse post zygotic barriers between monkeyflower species. Genetics 225.

2022

Sandstedt GB and AL Sweigart. 2022. Developmental evidence for parental conflict in driving Mimulus species barriers. New Phytologist 236: 1545-1557.

2021

Sandstedt GB, CA Wu, AL Sweigart. 2021. Evolution of multiple postzygotic barriers between species of the Mimulus tilingii complex. Evolution 5: 600-613.

2020

Kerwin RE and AL Sweigart. 2020. Rampant misimpression in a Mimulus (monkeyflower) introgression line caused by hybrid sterility, not regulatory divergence. Molecular Biology & Evolution 37: 2084-2098.

2019

Mantel SJ and AL Sweigart. 2019. Divergence in drought response traits between sympatric species of Mimulus. Ecology & Evolution 9: 10291-10304.

Flagel LE, BK Blackman, L Fishman, PJ Monnahan, AL Sweigart, JK Kelly. 2019. GOOGA: A a platform to synthesize mapping experiments and identify genomic structural diversity. PLoS Computational Biology 15: e1006949.

Sweigart AL*, Y Brandvain*, L Fishman*. 2019. Making a murderer: on the evolutionary framing of hybrid killers. Trends in Genetics 35: 245-252. * equal contribution

2018

Zuellig MP and AL Sweigart. 2018. A two-locus hybrid incompatibility is widespread, polymorphic, and active in natural populations of Mimulus. Evolution 72: 2394-2405.

Zuellig MP and AL Sweigart. 2018. Gene duplicates cause hybrid lethality between sympatric species of Mimulus. PLoS Genetics 14: e1007130.

Fishman L and AL Sweigart. 2018. When two rights make a wrong: evolutionary genetics of plant hybrid incompatibilities. Annual Review of Plant Biology 69: 707-731.

2017

Kerwin RE, AL Sweigart. 2017. Mechanisms of transmission ratio distortion at hybrid sterility loci within and between Mimulus species. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 7: 3719-3730.

2016

Kenney AM, AL Sweigart. 2016. Reproductive isolation and introgression between sympatric Mimulus species. Molecular Ecology 25: 2499-2517.

Garner AG, AM Kenney, L Fishman, AL Sweigart. 2016. Genetic loci with parent of origin effects cause hybrid seed lethality between Mimulus species. New Phytologist 211: 319-331.

2015

Ahmed-Braimah YH, AL Sweigart. 2015. A single gene causes an interspecific difference in pigmentation in Drosophila. Genetics 200: 331-342.

Sweigart AL, LE Flagel. 2015. Evidence of natural selection acting on a polymorphic hybrid incompatibility locus in Mimulus. Genetics 199: 543-554.

2014

Brandvain Y*, AM Kenney*, L Flagel, G Coop‡, AL Sweigart‡. 2014. Speciation and introgression between Mimulus nasutus and Mimulus guttatus. PLoS Genetics 10: e1004410. * joint contribution, ‡ joint supervision

Zuellig MP, AM Kenney, AL Sweigart. 2014. Evolutionary genetics of plant adaptation: insights from new model systems. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 18: 44-50.

Fishman L, AL Sweigart, AM Kenney, S Campbell. 2014. Major QTLs control divergence in critical photoperiod for flowering between selfing and outcrossing species of monkeyflower (Mimulus). New Phytologist, 201: 1498-1507.

2012 and earlier

Sweigart AL, JH Willis. 2012. Molecular evolution and genetics of postzygotic reproductive isolation in plants. F1000 Biology Reports 4: 23.

Benedict BG, JL Modliszewski, AL Sweigart, NH Martin, JH Willis. 2012. Mimulus sookensis (Phrymaceae), a new allotetraploid species derived from Mimulus guttatus and Mimulus nasutus. Madroño 59: 29-43.

Sweigart AL. 2010. Simple Y-autosomal incompatibilities cause hybrid male sterility in reciprocal crosses between Drosophila virilis and D. americana. Genetics 184: 779-787.

Sweigart AL. 2010. The genetics of postmating, prezygotic reproductive isolation between Drosophila virilis and D. americana. Genetics 184: 401-410.

Sweigart AL. 2009. Sculpin hybrid zones: natural laboratories for the early stages of speciation. Molecular Ecology 18: 2547-2548 (Invited comment, non-peer reviewed).

Sweigart AL, NH Martin, JH Willis. 2008. Patterns of nucleotide variation and reproductive isolation between a Mimulus allotetraploid and its progenitor species. Molecular Ecology 17: 2089-2100.

Sweigart AL, AR Mason, JH Willis. 2007. Natural variation for a hybrid incompatibility between two species of Mimulus. Evolution 61: 141-151.

Sweigart AL, L Fishman, JH Willis. 2006. A simple genetic incompatibility causes hybrid male sterility in Mimulus. Genetics 172: 2465-2479.

Sweigart AL, JH Willis. 2003. Patterns of nucleotide diversity are affected by mating system and asymmetric introgression in two species of Mimulus. Evolution 57: 2490-2506.

Phippen, TM, AL Sweigart, M Moniwa, A Krumm, JR Davie, SM Parkhurst. 2000. Drosophila C-terminal binding protein functions as a context-dependent transcriptional cofactor and interferes with both Mad and Groucho transcriptional repression. Journal of Biological Chemistry 275: 37628-37637.

Sweigart A, K Karoly, A Jones, and JH Willis. 1999. The distribution of individual inbreeding coefficients and pairwise relatedness in a population of Mimulus guttatus. Heredity 8: 625-632.