2007

Saisho D. and Purugganan M.D. (2007) Molecular phylogeography of domesticated barley traces expansion of agriculture in the old world. Genetics 177: 1765-1776.
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Hall M.C., Dworkin I., Ungerer M.C. and Purugganan M.D. (2007) Genetics of microenvironmental canalization in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104 (34): 13717-13722.
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Mather M.A., Caicedo A.L., Polato N.R., Olsen K.M., McCouch S., and Purugganan M.D. The extent of linkage disequilibrium in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Genetics 177: 2223-2232.
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Lawton-Rauh A., Robichaux R.H., and Purugganan M.D. (2007) Diversity and divergence patterns in regulatory genes suggest differential gene flow in recently derived species of the Hawaiian silversword alliance adaptive radiation (Asteraceae). Molecular Ecology 16 (19): 3995-4013.
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Caicedo A.L., Williamson S.H., Hernandez R.D., Boyko A., Fledel-Alon A., York T.L., Polato N.R., Olsen K.M., Nielsen R., McCouch S.R., Bustamante C.D., Purugganan M.D. (2007) Genome-wide patterns of nucleotide polymorphism in domesticated rice PLOS Genetics 3: 1745-1756.
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Ehrenreich, I.M., Stafford, P.A., and Purugganan, M.D. (2007). The Genetic Architecture of Shoot Branching in Arabidopsis thaliana: A Comparative Assessment of Candidate Gene Associations vs. Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping. Genetics 176: 1223-1236.
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Korves, T.M., Schmid, K.J., Caicedo, A.L., Mays, C., Stinkchcombe, J.R., Purugganan, M.D., and Schmitt, J. (2007). Fitness effects associated with the major flowering time gene FRIGIDA in Arabidopsis thaliana in the field. American Naturalist 169: electronically published.
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2006

Tang, T., Lu, J., Huang, J.Z., He, J.H., McCouch, S.R., Shen, Y., Kai, Z., Purugganan, M.D., Shi, S.H., and Wu, C.I. (2006). Genomic variation in rice: Genesis of highly polymorphic linkage blocks during domestication. PLOS Genetics 2: 1824-1833.

Ehrenreich, I.M. and Purugganan, M.D. (2006). The molecular genetic basis of plant adaptation. American J. Botany 93: 953-962.
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Olsen, K.M., Caicedo, A.L., Polato, N., McClung, A., McCouch, S., and Purugganan, M.D. (2006). Selection under domestication: Evidence for a sweep in the rice Waxy genomic region . Genetics 173: 975-983.
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Shimizu, K.K. and Purugganan, M.D. (2006). Evolutionary and ecological genomics - Darwinian selection on a selfing locus in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant and Cell Physiology 47: S13-S13.

Jackson, S., Rounsley, S., and Purugganan, M.D. (2006). Comparative sequencing of plant genomes: Choices to make . Plant Cell 18: 1100-1104.
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Miller, S.R., Purugganan, M.D., and Curtis, S.E. (2006). Molecular population genetics and phenotypic diversification of two populations of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus . Appl. Environ. Micro. 72: 2793-2800.

2005

Engelmann, K. E. and Purugganan, M.D. (In press). The molecular evolutionary ecology of plant development: Flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana. Advances in Botanical Research.

Cork, J.M. and Purugganan, M.D. (2005). High-diversity genes in the Arabidopsis genome. Genetics 170: 1897-1911.
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Shimizu, K.K. and Purugganan, M.D. (2005). Evolutionary and ecological genomics of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 138: 578-584.
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Caicedo, A.L. and Purugganan, M.D. (2005). Comparative plant genomics. Frontiers and Prospects. Plant Physiology 138: 545-547.
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Robichaux, R.H. and Purugganan, M.D. (2005). Adaptive radiation and regulatory gene evolution in the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae). Annals Missouri Bot. Garden 92: 28-35.

Moore, R.C., and Purugganan, M.D. (2005). The evolutionary dynamics of plant duplicate genes. Curr. Op. in Plant Biol. 8: 122-128.
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Tsompana, M., Abad, J., Purugganan, M.D., and Moyer, J.W. (2005). The molecular population genetics of the Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) genome . Mol. Ecol. 14: 53-66.
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Moore, R.C., Grant, S.R., and Purugganan, M.D. (2005). Molecular Population Genetics of Redundant Floral-Regulatory Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22: 91-103.
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2004

Fan, C.Z., Purugganan, M.D., Thomas, D.T., Wiegmann, B.M., and Xiang, Q.Y. (2004). Heterogeneous Evolution of the Myc-like Anthocyanin Regulatory Gene and its Phylogenetic Utility in Cornus L. (Cornaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 580-594.
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Caicedo, A.L., Stinchcombe, J.R., Olsen, K.M., Schmitt J., and Purugganan, M.D. (2004). Epistatic Interaction Between Arabidopsis FRI and FLC Flowering Time Genes Generates a Latitudinal Cline in a Life History Trait. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 101: 15670-15675.
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Friedman W.E., Moore R.C., and Purugganan M.D. (2004). The Evolution of Plant Development. American Journal of Botany 91: 1726-1741.
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Olsen, K.M., Haldorsdottir, S., Stinchcombe, J., Weinig, C., Schmitt, J. and Purugganan, M.D. (2004). Linkage disequilibrium mapping of Arabidopsis CRY2 flowering time alleles. Genetics 167: 1361-1369.
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Cork, J.M. and Purugganan, M.D. (2004). The evolution of molecular genetic pathways and networks. Bioessays 26: 479-484.
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Kalisz, S. M. and Purugganan, M.D. (2004). Epialleles via methylation – plant population epigenetic consequences. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 309-314.
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Stinchcombe, J.R., Weinig, C., Ungerer, M., Olsen, K.M., Mays, C., Halldorsdottir, S., Purugganan, M.D. and Schmitt, J. (2004). A latitudinal cline in flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana modulated by the flowering time gene FRIGIDA. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101: 4712-4717.
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2003

Moore, R.C. and Purugganan, M.D. (2003). The early stages of duplicate gene evolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 100: 15682-15687.
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Ungerer, M.C., Halldorsdottir, S., Purugganan, M.D. and Mackay, T.F.C. (2003). Genotype-environment interactions at quantitative trait loci affecting inflorescence development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 165: 353–365.
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Xie, J.H., Wehner, T.C., Wollenberg, K., Purugganan, M.D. and Conkling, M.A. (2003). Intron and polypeptide evolution of conserved NPA-to-NPA motif regions in plant aquaporins. J. Amer. Hort. Soc. 128: 591-597.

Weinig, C., Dorn, L.A., Kane, N.C., Ungerer, M.C., Halldorsdottir, S., German, Z., Toyonaga, Y., Mackay, T.F.C., Purugganan, M.D. and Schmitt, J. (2003). Heterogeneous selection at specific loci in natural environments in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 165: 321-329.
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Lawton-Rauh, A., Robichaux, R.H. and Purugganan, M.D. (2003). Patterns of nucleotide variation in homoeologous regulatory genes in the allotetraploid Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae). Molecular Ecology. 12: 1301-1313.
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Remington, D.L. and Purugganan, M.D. (2003). The genetics of functional trait evolution. Int. J. Plant Sci. 164: S7-S20.
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Shepard, K.A. and Purugganan, M.D. (2003). Molecular population genetics of the Arabidopsis CLAVATA2 genomic region: The genomic scale of balanced polymorphisms in a selfing species. Genetics 163: 1083-1095.
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Barrier, M., Bustamante, C., Yu, J. and Purugganan, M.D. (2003). Selection on rapidly-evolving proteins in the Arabidopsis genome. Genetics 163: 723-733.
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Purugganan, M.D., Remington, D.L. and Robichaux, R.H. (2003). Molecular evolution of regulatory genes in the silversword alliance. In Madiinae (Carlquist, S.H. and Baldwin, B.G., ed.). Missouri Botanical Garden Press.

2002

Weinig, C., Ungerer, M.C., Dorn, L.A., Kane, N.C., Toyonaga, Y., Halldorsdottir, S.S., Mackay, T.F.C., Purugganan, M.D. and Schmitt, J. (2002). Novel loci control variation in reproductive timing in Arabidopsis thaliana in natural environments. Genetics 162: 1875-1884.
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Olsen, K.M. and Purugganan, M.D. (2002). Molecular evidence on the origin and evolution of glutinous rice. Genetics 162: 941-950.
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Remington, D.L. and Purugganan, M.D. (2002). GAI homologues in the Hawaiian silversword alliance: Molecular evolution of growth regulators in a rapidly diversifying plant lineage. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 1563-1574.
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Jackson, R.B., Linder, C.R., Lynch, M., Purugganan, M., Somerville, S. and Thayer, S.S. (2002). Linking molecular insight and ecological research. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 409-414.
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Olsen, K.M., Womack, A., Garret, A.R., Suddith, J.I. and Purugganan, M.D. (2002). Contrasting evolutionary forces in the Arabidopsis floral developmental pathway. Genetics 160: 1641-1650.
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Bustamante, C., Nielsen, R., Sawyer, S., Olsen, K.M., Purugganan, M.D. and Hartl, D.L. The cost of inbreeding in Arabidopsis. Nature. 416: 531 - 534.
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Ungerer, M.C., Halldorsdottir, S., Modliszewski, J., Mackay, T.F.C. and Purugganan, M.D. (2002). Quantitative trait loci for inflorescence development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 160: 1133 - 1151.
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Shepard, K.A. and Purugganan, M.D. (2002). The genetics of plant morphological evolution. Curr. Op. Plant Biol. 5: 49 - 55.
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2001

Remington, D.L., Ungerer, M.C. and Purugganan, M.D. (2001). Map-based cloning of quantitative trait loci: Progress and prospects. Genet. Res. 78: 213 - 218.

Barrier, M., Robichaux, R.H. and Purugganan, M.D. (2001). Accelerated regulatory gene evolution in a plant adaptive radiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 10208 - 10213.
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2000

Barrier, M., Friar, E.A., Robichaux, R.H. and Purugganan, M.D. (2000). Interspecific evolution in plant microsatellite structure. Gene 241: 101 - 105.
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Purugganan, M.D. (2000). Molecular population genetics of regulatory genes. Mol. Ecol. 9: 1451 - 1461.
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Lawton-Rauh, A.L., Alvarez-Buylla, E.A. and Purugganan, M.D. (2000). Molecular evolution of flower development. Trends Ecol. Evol. 15: 144 - 149
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Juenger, T.E., Purugganan, M.D. and Mackay, T.F.C. (2000). Quantitative trait loci for floral morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 156: 1379 - 1392.
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1999

Lowman, A.C. and Purugganan, M.D. (1999). Duplication of the Brassica oleracea APETALA1 floral homeotic gene and the evolution of domesticated cauliflower. J. Heredity 90: 514 - 520.
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Purugganan, M.D. and Suddith, J. I. (1999). Molecular population genetics of floral homeotic loci: Departures from the equilibrium-neutral model at the APETALA3 and PISTILLATA genes of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 151: 839 - 848.
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Barrier, M., Baldwin, B., Robichaux, R.H., and Purugganan, M.D. (1999). Interspecific hybrid ancestry of a plant adaptive radiation: Allopolyploidy of the Hawaiian silversword alliance inferred from duplicated floral homeotic genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16: 1105 - 1113.
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Lawton-Rauh, A., Buckler, E., and Purugganan, M.D. (1999). Patterns of molecular evolution among paralogous floral homeotic genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16: 1037-1045.
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1998

Purugganan, M.D. and Suddith, J.I. (1998). Molecular population genetics of the Arabidopsis CAULIFLOWER regulatory gene: Nonneutral evolution and naturally occurring variation on floral homeotic function. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 8130 - 8134.
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Purugganan, M.D. (1998). The molecular evolution of development. BioEssays 20: 700 - 711.
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Purugganan. M.D. (1998). The splicing of transposable elements: evolution of a nuclear defense against genomic invasions? In Horizontal Gene Transfer (M. Syvanen, C.I. Kado, ed.). Chapman-Hall, London.

1997

Swaffield, J.C. and Purugganan, M.D. (1997). The evolution of the conserved ATPase domain (CAD): Reconstructing the history of an ancient protein module. J. Mol. Evol. 45: 549 - 563.
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Purugganan, M.D. (1997). The MADS-box floral homeotic gene lineages predate the origin of the seed plants: Phylogenetic and molecular clock estimates. J. Mol. Evol. 45: 392 - 396.
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