Finseth Lab

*Undergraduate co-author

Note: surname changed from “Ransler” to “Finseth”

• FR Finseth. (2023) Female meiotic drive in plants: mechanisms and dynamics. Current Opinions in Genetics and Development. 82:102101 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2023.102101

• FR Finseth, K Brown, A Demaree*, L Fishman. (2022) Supergene potential of a selfish centromere. Philosophical Transcactions of the Royal Society B. 377: 202110208 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0208

• S Budischak, S Halvorsen*, FR Finseth. (2022) Genomic heterozygosity is associated with parasite abundance, but the effects are not mediated by host condition. Evolutionary Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-022-10175-8

• FR Finseth, T Nelson, L Fishman. (2021) Selfish chromosomal drive shapes recent centromeric histone evolution in monkeyflowers. PLOS Genetics 17(4): e1009418 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009418

• T Nelson, A Stathos, D Vanderpool, FR Finseth, Y Yuan, L Fishman.  (2021) Ancient and recent introgression shape the evolutionary history of pollinator adaptation and speciation in a model monkeyflower radiation.  PLoS Genetics 17(2): e1009095 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009095

• K Muenzen*, J Monroy, FR Finseth. (2019) Evolution of the PEVK region of titin across mammals.  G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 4 1103-1115. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.118.200714

•  T Nelson, P Monnahan, M McIntosh, K Anderson, E MacArthur-Waltz, FR Finseth,  J Kelly, L Fishman.  (2018) Extreme copy number variation at a tRNA ligase affecting phenology and fitness in yellow monkeyflowers.  Molecular Ecology. 28:1460-1475 doi.org/10.1111/mec.14904

• FR Finseth, RG harrison. (2018) Genes integral to the sexual function of male reproductive tissues drive heterogeneity in evolutionary rates. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 8: 39-51.  

• AC Case**, FR Finseth**, CM Barr, L Fishman.  (2016) Selfish evolution of cytonuclear hybrid incompatibility in Mimulus.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283:2016493.  **co-first author

• M Hendrick**, FR Finseth**, M Matthiassen*, K Palmer*, E Broder*, L Fishman (2016) The genetics of extreme microgeographic adaptation: an integrated approach identifies a major gene underlying leaf trichome divergence in Yellowstone Mimulus guttatus.  Molecular Ecology, 25.**co-first author

• FR Finseth, Y Dong, A Saunders, L Fishman (2015) Duplication and adaptive evolution of a key centromeric protein in Mimulus, a genus with female meiotic drive. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 32 (10): 2694-2706. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv145 

• FR Finseth, ER Bondra*, RG Harrison (2014) Selective constraint dominates the evolution of a novel reproductive gland. Molecular Biology and Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 12: 3266-3281. doi: 10.1093/mlbev/msu259

• FR Finseth, RG Harrison (2014) A comparison of next-generation sequencing technologies for transcriptome assembly and utility for RNA-Seq in a non-model bird. PLoS ONE, 9: e108550.

• FR Finseth, SR Iacovelli*, RG Harrison, EK Adkins-Regan (2013) A non-semen copulatory fluid influences the outcome of sperm competition in Japanese quail. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26: 1875 -1889.

• FA Ransler, SJ Oyler-McCance, TW Quinn (2011) Genetic consequences of trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) reintroductions. Conservation Genetics, 12: 257-268.

• Oyler-McCance, SJ, FA Ransler, LK Berkman, TW Quinn. (2007) A rangewide population genetic study of trumpeter swans. Conservation Genetics, 8: 1339-1353.

• Oyler-McCance SJ, FA Ransler, LK Berkmans, Quinn TW (2006) A comparison of trumpeter swan populations using nuclear and mitochondrial genetic markers. Final Report, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, CO

• St John, J, FA Ransler, TW Quinn, SJ Oyler-McCance. (2006) Characterization of microsatellite loci isolated in trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator). Molecular Ecology Notes, 6: 1083-1085. 

• Blumstein, DT, A Runyan, M Seymour*, A Nicodemus*, A Ozgul, FA Ransler*, S Im, T Stark, C Zugmeyer, JC Daniel. (2004) Locomotor ability and wariness in yellow-bellied marmots. Ethology, 110, 615-634.

In preparation:

 E Bekele*, T Finley*, F Jammes, and FR Finseth In prep Self-pollination promotes quantitatively flatter epidermal petal cells in monkeyflowers. 

F Callahan*, E Anderson*, N Day, M Coleman, FR Finseth In prep The neurogenetic basis of pair-bonding behavior in zebrafinch.