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Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For detailed information, please visit the lab website (link above).  My students and I focus on how organisms adapt to changing environments.  We use a variety of organisms both in the field and under controlled environments to address fundamental questions about the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity and bet-hedging traits under fluctuating environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially useful as model organisms are monocarpic (i.e. reproduce once per lifetime) plants, such as Lobelia inflata<\/em>; and plants with rapid generation times such as Spirodela polyrhiza<\/em>, a member of the duckweed subfamily (Lemnoideae) which are the smallest flowering plants on the planet. We are concerned, too, with the genetic mechanisms underlying expression of life-history traits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Morris, R.S., M.E. Compton, and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2020. Birth order as a source of within-genotype diversification in the clonal duckweed, Spirodela polyrhiza<\/em> (Araceae: Lemnoideae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society<\/em> (In press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hitsman, H.W. and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2020. Latitudinal variation in norms of reaction of phenology in the greater duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza<\/em>. Journal of Evolutionary Biology <\/em>33:1405-1416.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wen, L. and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2020. Delusions of grandeur: Seed count is not a good fitness proxy under individual variation in phenology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology<\/em>. 33:1039-1049.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C\u00f4t\u00e9, K. and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2020. Genotype-environment interaction and the maintenance of genetic variation: an empirical study of Lobelia inflata<\/em> (Campanulaceae). Roy. Soc. Open Sci.<\/em> 7:191720.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brady, S. P., \u2026, A.M. Simons<\/strong> et al. 2019. Causes of maladaptation. Evolutionary Applications <\/em>12:1229-1242.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Van Wieren, J.F., and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2019. Prescribed fire increases seedling recruitment in a natural pitch pine (Pinus rigida<\/em>) population at its northern range limit. Natural Areas Journal<\/em> 39:308-318.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brady, S. P., \u2026, A.M. Simons<\/strong> et al. 2019. Causes of maladaptation. Evolutionary Applications<\/em> 12:1229-1242.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Mejbel, H.S., and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2018. Aberrant clones: birth order generates life-history diversity in Greater Duckweed, Spirodela polyrhiza<\/em>. Ecology and Evolution <\/em>8:2021-2031.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Fukase, J., and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2016. Increased pollinator activity in urban gardens with more native flora. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research<\/em> 14:297-310.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, P.W.D., and A.M. Simons.<\/strong> 2015. Microsatellite evidence for obligate autogamy, but abundant genetic variation in the herbaceous monocarp Lobelia inflata<\/em>. Journal of Evolutionary Biology <\/em>28:2068-2077.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, P.W.D., and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2014. Changing reproductive effort within a semelparous reproductive episode. American Journal of Botany<\/em> 101:1323-1331.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham, J.K., M.L. Smith, and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2014. Experimental evolution of bet hedging under manipulated environmental uncertainty in Neurospora crassa<\/em>. Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em> 281: 20140706.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simons, A.M<\/strong>. 2014. Playing smart vs. playing safe: the joint expression of phenotypic plasticity and potential bet hedging across and within thermal environments Journal of Evolutionary Biology<\/em> 27:1047-1056.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, P.W.D., and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2014. Secondary reproduction in the herbaceous monocarp Lobelia inflata: time-constrained primary reproduction does not result in increased deferral of reproductive effort. BMC Ecology 14:15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, P.W.D., and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2014. The continuum between semelparity and iteroparity: Plastic expression of parity in response to season length manipulation in Lobelia inflata. BMC Evolutionary Biology<\/em> 14:90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, P.W, A.F. Jaworski, C.S. Davis, S.M. Aitken and A.M. Simons<\/strong>. 2014. Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers for Indian Tobacco Lobelia inflata <\/em>(Campanulaceae)  Applications in Plant Sciences<\/em> 2: 1300096.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Simons, A.M<\/strong>. 2011. Modes of response to environmental change and the elusive empirical evidence for bet hedging. Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em> 278:1601-1609.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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