PUBLICATIONS

2023
  • Mitchell, N., McAssey, E.V., Hodel, R.G.J. 2023. Introduction: Emerging methods in botanical DNA/RNA extraction. Applications in Plant Sciences. 11(3): e11530. https://doi/10.1002/aps3.11530

2022
  • Mitchell, N., Luu, Hoang, Owens, G.L, Risebergh, L.H, Whitney, K.D. 2022. Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers (Helianthus). Evolution. 76(7): 1512-1528. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14536
  • Mitchell, N., Piatczyc, N.P., Wang, D.D., Edwards, J. 2022. High-speed video and plant ultrastructure define mechanisms of gametophyte dispersal. Applications in Plant Sciences. 10(2): e11463. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11463
  • Santangelo, J., …, Mitchell, N., …and Johnson, M. 2022. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science. 375(6586): 1275-1281. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk0989

2021
  • Mitchell, N., & Whitney, K.D. 2021. Limited evidence for a positive relationship between hybridization and diversification across seed plant families. Evolution. 75(8):1966-1982. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14291
  • Owens, G.L., Todesco, M., Bercovich, N., Légaré, J.S., Mitchell, N., Whitney, K.D., and Rieseberg, L.H. 2021. Standing variation rather than recent adaptive introgression likely underlies differentiation of the texanus subspecies of Helianthus annuus. Molecular Ecology. 30: 6229-6245. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16008
  • Mitchell, N., Chamberlain, S.A., and Whitney, K.D. 2021. Proximity to crop relatives determines some patterns of natural selection in a wild sunflower. Evolutionary Applications. 14:1328-1342. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13201

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2019
  • Mitchell, N., Campbell, L.G., Ahern, J.R., Paine, K.C., and Whitney, K.D. 2019. Correlates of hybridization in plants. Evolution Letters. 3:570-585. https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.146
  • Buys, M.H., Winkworth, R.C., de Lange, P.D., Wilson, P.G., Mitchell, N., Lemmon, A.R., Moriarty Lemmon, E. Holland, and Ganley, S. 2019. The phylogenomics of diversification on an island: applying Anchored Hybrid Enrichment to Leptospermum scoparium (Myrtaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 191:1-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boz033
  • Edwards, J. Laskowski, M., Baskin, T.I., Mitchell, N., and Demeo, B. 2019. The role of water in fast plant movements. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59:1525-1534. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz081
  • Mitchell, N., Owens, G.L., Hovick, S.M., Rieseberg, L.H., and Whitney, K.D. 2019. Hybridization speeds adaptation in an eight-year field experiment. Scientific Reports. 9:6746. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43119-4
  • Barrow, L.N., McNew, S.M., Mitchell, N., Galen, S.C., Lutz, H.L., Skeen, H. Valqui, T., Weckstein, J.D., and Witt, C.C. 2019. Deeply conserved susceptibility in a multi-host, multi-parasite system. Ecology Letters. 22:987-998. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13263
  • Mitchell, N., Holsinger, K.E. 2019. Microscale trait-environment associations in two closely-related South African shrubs. American Journal of Botany. 106(2):211-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1234

2018
  • Mitchell, N., Whitney, K.D. 2018. Can plants evolve to meet a changing climate? The potential of field experimental evolution studies. American Journal of Botany. 105(10):1613-1616. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1170
  • Mitchell, N., and K.E. Holsinger. 2018. Cryptic natural hybridization between two species of Protea. South African Journal of Botany. 118:306-314. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2017.12.002​
  • Man, H.S.J., Sukumar, A.N., Lam, G.C., Turgeon, P.J., Yan, M.S., Ku, K.H., Dubinsky, M.K., Ho, J.J.D., Wang, J.J., Das, S., Mitchell, N., Oettgen, P., Sefton, M.V., and P.A. Marsden. 2018. Angiogenic patterning by STEEL, an endothelial-enriched long noncoding RNA. PNAS. 115(10):2401-2406. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715182115
  • Mitchell, N., Carlson, J.E., and K.E. Holsinger. 2018. Correlated evolution between climate and suites of traits along a fast-slow continuum in the radiation of Protea. Ecology and Evolution. 8(3):1853-1866. http://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3773

2017
  • Mitchell, N., P.O. Lewis, E.M. Lemmon, A.R. Lemmon, and K.E. Holsinger.  2017.  Anchored phylogenomics improves the resolution of evolutionary relationships in the rapid radiation of Protea L. American Journal of Botany. 104(1):102-115. http://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1600227

Older
  • Buddenhagen, C., A. R. Lemmon, E. C. Lemmon, J. Bruhl, J. Cappa, W.L. Clement, M.J. Donoghue, E.J. Edwards, A.L. Hipp, M. Kortyna, N. Mitchell, A. Morre, C.J. Prichid, M. C. Segovia-Salcedo, M.P. Simmons. P.S. Soltis, S. Wanke, A. Mast. Anchored phylogenomics of angiosperms I: assessing the robustness of phylogenetic estimates. Systematic Biology. In Review. (preprint: bioRxiv http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/086298​)
  • Mitchell, N., T.E., Moore, H.K. Mollmann, J.E. Carlson, K. Mocko, H.I. Martinez-Cabrera, C. Adams, J.A. Silander, C.D. Schlichting, K.E. Holsinger. 2015. Functional traits in parallel evolutionary radiations and trait-environment associations in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. The American Naturalist. 185(4):525-537. http://doi.org/10.1086/680051
  • Vijayaraj, P., A. LeBras, N. Mitchell, M. Kondo, S. Juliao, M. Wasserman, D. Beeler, K. Spokes, W.C. Aird, H.S. Baldwin, P. Oettgen. 2012. Erg is a crucial regulator of endocardial-mesenchymal transformation during cardiac valve morphogenesis. Development. 139:3973-3985. http://doi.org/10.1242/dev.081596