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69
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1429
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John H. Willis publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John H. Willis sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 127 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

John H. Willis D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John H. Willis sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

John H. Willis is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Aging, Education, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Recent publications by John H. Willis cover a range of subjects within genetics and evolutionary biology. These include:

  • The genetic architecture and evolution of life-history divergence among perennials in the Mimulus guttatus species complex, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Slow Recovery from Inbreeding Depression Generated by the Complex Genetic Architecture of Segregating Deleterious Mutations, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Gene expression variation across genetically identical individuals predicts reproductive traits, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Widespread changes in gene expression accompany body size evolution in nematodes, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The genetic basis of traits associated with the evolution of serpentine endemism in monkeyflowers, 2023, Evolution

John H. Willis has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Evolution
  • BioScience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John H. Willis include:

  • Patrick C. Phillips
  • Erik Johnson
  • Gavin Woodruff
  • Jenn M. Coughlan
  • Maya Wilson Brown

Best Publications

  • The genetics of inbreeding depression.

    Deborah Charlesworth;John H. Willis

  • A widespread chromosomal inversion polymorphism contributes to a major life-history transition, local adaptation, and reproductive isolation.

    David B. Lowry;John H. Willis

  • Which evolutionary processes influence natural genetic variation for phenotypic traits

    Thomas Mitchell-Olds;John H. Willis;David B. Goldstein

  • The strength and genetic basis of reproductive isolating barriers in flowering plants

    David B Lowry;Jennifer L Modliszewski;Kevin M Wright;Carrie A Wu

  • PERSPECTIVE: SPONTANEOUS DELETERIOUS MUTATION

    Michael Lynch;Jeff Blanchard;David Houle;Travis Kibota

  • Evolutionary genetics of plant adaptation

    Jill T. Anderson;John H. Willis;Thomas Mitchell-Olds

  • Plant Speciation

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  • DIVERGENT SELECTION ON FLOWERING TIME CONTRIBUTES TO LOCAL ADAPTATION IN MIMULUS GUTTATUS POPULATIONS

    Megan C. Hall;Megan C. Hall;John H. Willis

  • A genetic map in the Mimulus guttatus species complex reveals transmission ratio distortion due to heterospecific interactions.

    Lila Fishman;Alan J. Kelly;Emily Morgan;John H. Willis

  • The statistics of bulk segregant analysis using next generation sequencing.

    Paul M. Magwene;John H. Willis;John K. Kelly

  • ECOLOGICAL REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION OF COAST AND INLAND RACES OF MIMULUS GUTTATUS

    David B. Lowry;R. Cotton Rockwood;John H. Willis

  • ECOLOGICAL DIVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH MATING SYSTEM CAUSES NEARLY COMPLETE REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION BETWEEN SYMPATRIC MIMULUS SPECIES

    Noland H. Martin;John H. Willis

  • Mimulus is an emerging model system for the integration of ecological and genomic studies.

    C A Wu;D B Lowry;A M Cooley;K M Wright

  • What can patterns of differentiation across plant genomes tell us about adaptation and speciation

    Jared L. Strasburg;Natasha A. Sherman;Kevin M. Wright;Leonie C. Moyle

  • Minor quantitative trait loci underlie floral traits associated with mating system divergence in Mimulus.

    Lila Fishman;Alan J. Kelly;John H. Willis;John H. Willis

  • CAN ONE PREDICT THE EVOLUTION OF QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERS WITHOUT GENETICS

    John H. Willis;Jerry A. Coyne;Mark Kirkpatrick

  • Fine-scale variation in meiotic recombination in Mimulus inferred from population shotgun sequencing

    Uffe Hellsten;Kevin M. Wright;Jerry Jenkins;Shengqiang Shu

  • A novel meiotic drive locus almost completely distorts segregation in mimulus (monkeyflower) hybrids

    Lila Fishman;John H. Willis

  • Pleiotropic Quantitative Trait Loci Contribute to Population Divergence in Traits Associated With Life-History Variation in Mimulus guttatus

    Megan C. Hall;Christopher J. Basten;John H. Willis

  • EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF INBREEDING ON FITNESS COMPONENTS IN MIMULUS GUTTATUS.

    John H. Willis

  • THE ROLE OF GENES OF LARGE EFFECT ON INBREEDING DEPRESSION IN MIMULUS GUTTATUS.

    John H. Willis

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick C. Phillips
Patrick C. Phillips University of Oregon
Matthias Peter
Matthias Peter ETH Zurich
Graham Coop
Graham Coop University of California, Davis
David E. Salt
David E. Salt University of Nottingham
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
Gordon J. Lithgow
Gordon J. Lithgow Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Thomas Mitchell-Olds
Thomas Mitchell-Olds Duke University
Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch Arizona State University
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg University of British Columbia

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