Mimulus Community

Mimulus guttatus

The Mimulus Community

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General Info

The genus Mimulus (historically "Scrophulariaceae," order Lamiales) has been a model plant system for ecological and evolutionary genetics for over 50 years (Vickery, 1951). Check out the poster of the phylogeny of the Mimulus genus.

Mimulus guttatus Complex

The Mimulus guttatus species complex (yellow monkey flowers) is a group of closely related species exhibiting the common evolutionary transition from outcrossing to self-pollination. Mimulus presents an excellent model system for studies of evolution because of its broad diversity of floral morphologies, incomplete reproductive barriers, and its amenability to experimental manipulation.

People

Mimulus lewisii and Mimulus cardinalis with hybrids

Labs John Willis Lila Fishman Toby Bradshaw Todd Vision Kermit Ritland Doug Schemske Quentin Cronk Paul Beardsley Bob Vickery John Kelly Randall Mitchell Jeffery Karron Mark Macnair Andrea Case Michele Dudash

Post-Docs Megan Hall Amy Angert Carrie Wu Amy Bouck Matt Streisfeld

Grad Students Arielle Cooley Young-Wa Lee Andrea Sweigart David Lowry Kevin Wright Christina Pince Kristy Brady Jason Sexton Jay Sobel Jennifer Modliszewski

Announcements

• The annual Mimulus Meeting was held Febuary 17-19, 2006 at Duke University.

Mimulus Meeting 2006 at Duke University

• JGI should complete 8x coverage of the Mimulus guttatus genome by the end of January 2007

Papers

• Vickery
• Ritland
• Beardsley
• Bradshaw
• MacNair

Techniques

1. DNA Extraction Protocol
2. Microsatellite recipes

Seed Collections

Below is an excel spreadsheet that lists the seed collections of Mimulus that are currently located at Duke University. The seed collections are primarily composed of seeds from within the Mimulus guttatus complex. Most of these seeds can be made available for upon request. Please allow a few weeks for orders to be fulfilled. Contact David Lowry at david.lowry@duke.edu for seed requests or information about collection locations.

• Collection Spreadsheet

Mimulus Discussion Page

Check out the Mimulus Discussion Page to see what people in the community are saying and to leave your own messages. Make sure to leave you name and date of entry for all additions.

Mimulus web sites

• Mimulus Biological Resource Center
• Clemson University Genomics Institute website
• Blast the NCBI Trace Archives
• Mimulus guttatus complex
• JGI annoncement of whole genome sequencing
• Mimulus Flora of China
• Biodiversity

Bioinformatic Software and Resources

• Apollo
• sim4
• BLAT
• NCBI Trace Archives
• ClustalW
• Primer 3