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John R. Stinchcombe

John R. Stinchcombe

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
54
Citations
12481
World Ranking
3109
National Ranking
211

Overview

John R. Stinchcombe is a researcher affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their work is primarily situated within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable presence in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The research spans across several subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics addressed in John R. Stinchcombe's research include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
  • Nematode management and characterization studies

Their recent notable publications cover a range of ecological and evolutionary biology themes:

  • "Rapid weed adaptation and range expansion in response to agriculture over the past two centuries" (2022) published in Science
  • "Multiple Mutualism Effects generate synergistic selection and strengthen fitness alignment in the interaction between legumes, rhizobia and mycorrhizal fungi" (2021) published in Ecology Letters
  • "Environmental variation impacts trait expression and selection in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis" (2020) published in American Journal of Botany
  • "Parallel flowering time clines in native and introduced ragweed populations are likely due to adaptation" (2020) published in Ecology and Evolution
  • "The genetic architecture and population genomic signatures of glyphosate resistance in Amaranthus tuberculatus" (2021) published in Molecular Ecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John R. Stinchcombe include:

  • Stephen Wright
  • Megan E. Frederickson
  • Julia A. Boyle
  • Julia M. Kreiner
  • Detlef Weigel

John R. Stinchcombe commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Molecular Ecology
  • Evolution
  • New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • Combining population genomics and quantitative genetics: finding the genes underlying ecologically important traits.

    J R Stinchcombe;Hopi E. Hoekstra

  • A latitudinal cline in flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana modulated by the flowering time gene FRIGIDA

    John R. Stinchcombe;Cynthia Weinig;Mark Ungerer;Kenneth M. Olsen

  • An emerging synthesis between community ecology and evolutionary biology.

    Marc T. J. Johnson;Marc T. J. Johnson;John R. Stinchcombe

  • Estimating Nonlinear Selection Gradients Using Quadratic Regression Coefficients: Double Or Nothing?

    John R. Stinchcombe;Aneil F. Agrawal;Paul A. Hohenlohe;Paul A. Hohenlohe;Stevan J. Arnold

  • Epistatic interaction between Arabidopsis FRI and FLC flowering time genes generates a latitudinal cline in a life history trait.

    Ana L. Caicedo;John R. Stinchcombe;Kenneth M. Olsen;Johanna Schmitt

  • An atlas of over 90,000 conserved noncoding sequences provides insight into crucifer regulatory regions

    Annabelle Haudry;Adrian E Platts;Emilio Vello;Douglas R Hoen

  • How much do genetic covariances alter the rate of adaptation

    Aneil F Agrawal;John R Stinchcombe

  • The Adaptive Evolution of Plasticity: Phytochrome-Mediated Shade Avoidance Responses

    Johanna Schmitt;John R. Stinchcombe;M. Shane Heschel;Heidrun Huber

  • Testing for Environmentally Induced Bias in Phenotypic Estimates of Natural Selection: Theory and Practice

    John R. Stinchcombe;Matthew T. Rutter;Donald S. Burdick;Peter Tiffin

  • Genetics and evolution of function-valued traits: understanding environmentally responsive phenotypes

    John R. Stinchcombe;Mark Kirkpatrick

  • Fitness Effects Associated with the Major Flowering Time Gene FRIGIDA in Arabidopsis thaliana in the Field

    Tonia M. Korves;Karl J. Schmid;Ana L. Caicedo;Charlotte Mays

  • POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS IN ENDANGERED SPECIES RECOVERY PLANS: PAST USE AND FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS

    William F. Morris;Philip L. Bloch;Brian R. Hudgens;Leonie C. Moyle

  • Evolution of plant resistance and tolerance to frost damage

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Jeffrey K. Conner;John R. Stinchcombe

  • Diffuse Selection on Resistance to Deer Herbivory in the Ivyleaf Morning Glory, Ipomoea hederacea

    John R. Stinchcombe;Mark D. Rausher

  • Linkage disequilibrium mapping of Arabidopsis CRY2 flowering time alleles

    Kenneth M Olsen;Solveig S Halldorsdottir;John R Stinchcombe;Cynthia Weinig

  • EXPLAINING MUTUALISM VARIATION: A NEW EVOLUTIONARY PARADOX?

    Katy D. Heath;John R. Stinchcombe

  • Repeated evolutionary changes of leaf morphology caused by mutations to a homeobox gene.

    Adrien Sicard;Anna Thamm;Cindy Marona;Young Wha Lee

  • Association mapping reveals the role of purifying selection in the maintenance of genomic variation in gene expression

    Emily B. Josephs;Young Wha Lee;John R. Stinchcombe;Stephen I. Wright

  • EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS OF RESISTANCE AND TOLERANCE TO NATURAL HERBIVORY IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA

    Cynthia Weinig;John R. Stinchcombe;Johanna Schmitt

  • Multiple modes of convergent adaptation in the spread of glyphosate-resistant Amaranthus tuberculatus.

    Julia M. Kreiner;Darci Ann Giacomini;Felix Bemm;Bridgit Waithaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen I. Wright
Stephen I. Wright University of Toronto
Johanna Schmitt
Johanna Schmitt University of California, Davis
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Patrick J. Tranel
Patrick J. Tranel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael D. Purugganan
Michael D. Purugganan New York University
Mark D. Rausher
Mark D. Rausher Duke University
Daniel J. Schoen
Daniel J. Schoen McGill University
Martin Lascoux
Martin Lascoux Uppsala University
Christa Lanz
Christa Lanz Max Planck Society
Peter H. Sikkema
Peter H. Sikkema University of Guelph

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