Publications
2024
Dunivant, T.S., Singh, V., Livingston, K.E., Ross, J.D., Hileman, L.C. 2024. CYCLOIDEA paralogs function partially redundantly to specify dorsal flower development in Mimulus lewisii. American Journal of Botany 111(2):e16271. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16271
2023
Wessinger, C.A., Katzer, A.M., Hime, P. Rausher, M.D., Kelly J.K., Hileman, L.C. 2023. A few essential genetic loci distinguish Penstemon species with flowers adapted to pollination by bees or hummingbirds. PLOS Biology.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002294
2022
Sengupta, A., Hileman, L.C. 2022. A CYC–RAD–DIV–DRIF interaction likely pre-dates the origin of floral monosymmetry in Lamiales. EvoDevo 13:3 https://doi: 10.1186/s13227-021-00187-w
2021
Liao, I.T, Hileman, L.C., Roy, R. 2021. On the horizon for nectar-related research. American Journal of Botany 108:2326-30 https://doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1767
2020
Wessinger, C.A., Hileman, L.C. 2020. Parallelism in flower evolution and development. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 51:387-405 https://doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-124511
Colicchio, J, Kelly, J.K., Hileman, L.C. 2020. Mimulus sRNAs are wound responsive and associated with transgenerationally plastic genes but rarely both. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21(20):7552 https://doi: 10.3390/ijms21207552
Wessinger, C.A., Rausher, M.D., Hileman, L.C. 2019. Adaptation to hummingbird pollination is associated with reduced diversification in Penstemon. Evolution Letters 3(5):521-533 https://doi: 10.1002/evl3.130
2019
Wessinger, C.A., Rausher, M.D., Hileman, L.C. 2019. Adaptation to hummingbird pollination is associated with reduced diversification in Penstemon. Evolution Letters 3(5):521-533 https://doi: 10.1002/evl3.130
Katzer, A.M., Wessinger, C.A., Hileman, L.C. 2019. Nectary size is a pollination syndrome trait in Penstemon. New Phytologist 223:377-384 https://doi: 10.1111/nph.15769
2018
Sengupta, A., Hileman, L.C. 2018. Novel traits, flower symmetry, and transcriptional auto-regulation: new hypotheses from bioinformatic and experimental data. Frontiers in Plant Science 9:1561 https://doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01561.
Wessinger, C.A., Kelly, J.K., Jiang, P. Rausher, M.D., Hileman, L.C. 2018. SNP-skimming: A fast approach to map loci generating quantitative variation in natural populations. Molecular Ecology Resources 18. https://doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12930
Colicchio, J.M., Kelly, J.K., Hileman, L.C. 2018. Parental experience modifies the Mimulus methylome. BMC Genomics 19:746. https://doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-5087-x.
2017
Zhong, J., Preston, J.C., Hileman, L.C., Kellogg, E.A. 2017. Repeated and diverse losses of corolla bilateral symmetry in the Lamiaceae. Annals of Botany 119:21211-1223 https://doi: 10.1093/aob/mcx012.
2016
Wessinger, C.A., Hileman, L.C. 2016. Accessibility, constraint, and repetition in adaptive floral evolution. Developmental Biology [Epub ahead of print] https://doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.05.003.
O’Meara, B.C.*, Smith, S.D.*, Armbruster, W.S., Harder, L.D., Hardy, C., Hileman, L.C., Hufford, L., Litt, A., Magallon, S., Smith, S.A., Stevens, P.F., Fenster, C.B°, Diggle, P.K.° 2016. Non-equilibrium dynamics and floral trait interactions shape extant angiosperm diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 283:20152304. doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2304
Wessinger, C.A., Freeman, C.C., Mort, M.E., Rausher, M.D., Hileman, L.C. 2016. Multiplexed shotgun genotyping resolves species relationships within the recently radiated North American genus Penstemon. American Journal of Botany 103:912-922. https://doi: 10.3732/ajb.1500519
Preston, J.C., Jorgensen, S.A., Orozco, R., Hileman, L.C. 2016. Paralogous SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE (SPL) genes deferentially regulate leaf initiation and reproductive phase change in petunia. Planta 243:429-40. https://doi: 10.1007/s00425-015-2413-2
2015
Colicchio J.M., F. Miura, J.K. Kelly, T. Ito, L.C. Hileman. 2015. DNA methylation and gene expression in Mimulus guttatus. BMC Genomics 16:504
Colicchio J.M., P.J. Monnahan, J.K. Kelly, L.C. Hileman. 2015. Gene expression plasticity resulting from parental leaf damage in Mimulus guttatus. New Phytologist 205(2):894-906
2014
Wessinger, C.A., L.C. Hileman and M.D. Rausher. 2014. Identification of major QTLs underlying floral pollination syndrome divergence in Penstemon. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 369(1648)
Hileman, L.C. 2014. Trends in flower symmetry evolution revealed through phylogenetic and developmental genetic advances. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 369(1648)
Hileman, L.C. 2014. Bilateral flower symmetry - how, when and why? Current Opinion in Plant Biology 17:146-52
Preston, J.C., L.L. Barnett, M.A. Kost, N. Oborny and L.C. Hileman. 2014. Optimization of Virus-induced Gene Silencing to Facilitate Evo-Devo Studies in the Emerging Model Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 99:301-312 doi:http://doi.org/10.3417/2010120
2013
Preston, J.C. and L.C. Hileman. 2013. Functional evolution in the plant SQUAMOSA-PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE (SPL) gene family. Frontiers in Plant Evolution and Development 4:80.
Brockington, S.F., Alvarez-Fernandez, R., Landis, J.B., Alcorn, K., Walker, R.W., Thomas, M.M., Hileman, L.C., Glover, B.J. 2013. Evolutionary analysis of the MIXTA gene family highlights potential targets for the study of cellular differentiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30:526-540.
2012
Preston, J.C. and L.C. Hileman. 2012. Parallel evolution of TCP and B-class genes in Commelinaceae flower bilateral symmetry. Evodevo 3:6. Preston&Hileman.2012.
Baker, R.L., L.C. Hileman and P.K. Diggle. 2012. Patterns of shoot architecture in locally adapted populations are linked to intraspecific differences in gene regulation. New Phytologist 196(1):271-281.
Landis, J.B., L.L. Barnett and L.C. Hileman. 2012. Evolution of petaloid sepals independent of shifts in B-class MADS box gene expression. Development Genes and Evolution 222(1):19-28.
2011
Preston, J.C., L.C. Hileman and P. Cubas. 2011. Reduce, reuse, and recycle: Developmental evolution of trait diversification. American Journal of Botany 98: 397-403.
Scoville, A.G., L.L. Barnett, S. Bodbyl-Roels, J.K. Kelly and L.C. Hileman. 2011. Differential regulation of a MYB transcription factor is correlated with transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of trichome density in Mimulus guttatus. New Phytologist 191(1):251-263.
Preston, J.C., C.C. Martinez and L.C. Hileman. 2011. Gradual disintegration of the floral symmetry gene network is implicated in the evolution of a wind-pollination syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 108(6): 2343-2348.
2010
Preston, J.C. and L.C. Hileman. 2010. SQUAMOSA-PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN 1 initiates flowering in Antirrhinum majus through the activation of meristem identity genes. The Plant Journal 62:704-712.
2009
Hileman, L.C. and P. Cubas. 2009. An expanded evolutionary role for flower symmetry genes. BMC Biology 8:90.
Preston, J.C. and L.C. Hileman. 2009. Developmental genetics of floral symmetry evolution. Trends in Plant Science 14(3):147-154.
Preston, J.C., M.A. Kost and L.C. Hileman. 2009. Conservation and diversification of the symmetry developmental program among close relatives of snapdragon with divergent floral morphologies. New Phytologist 182(3):751-762.
Hileman, L.C. and V.F. Irish. 2009. More is better: the uses of developmental genetic data to reconstruct perianth evolution. American Journal of Botany 96:83-95.
2007
Drea, S., L.C. Hileman, G. de Martino, and V.F. Irish. 2007. Functional analyses of genetic pathways controlling petal specification in poppy. Development 134:4157-4166.
2006
Hileman, L.C., J. Sundstrom, A. Litt, M.Q. Chen, T. Shumba and V.F. Irish. 2006. Molecular and phylogenetic analyses of the MADS-box gene family in tomato. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(11):2245-2258.
Baum, D. A. and L.C. Hileman. 2006. Genetic model for the origin of flowers. Chap. 1 in "Flowering and its manipulation" (C. Ainsworth, ed.), Blackwell Publishing, Sheffield, UK.
2005
Hileman, L.C., S. Drea, G. de Martino, A. Litt, and V.F. Irish. 2005. Virus-induced gene silencing is an effective tool for assaying gene function in the basal eudicot species Papaver somniferum (opium poppy). The Plant Journal 44: 334-341.
2004 and earlier
Smith, J.F., S.B. Draper, L.C. Hileman, and D.A. Baum. 2004. A phylogenetic analysis within tribes Gloxinieae and Gesnerieae (Gesnerioideae: Gesneriaceae). Systematic Botany 29(4):947-958.
Smith, J.F., L.C. Hileman, M. Powell, and D.A. Baum. 2004. Evolution of GCYC, a Gesneriaceae homolog of CYCLOIDEA, within subfamily Gesneriodeae (Gesneriaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31;765-779.
Hileman, L.C., E.M. Kramer and D.A. Baum. 2003. Differential regulation of symmetry genes and the evolution of floral morphologies . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100(22):12814-12819.
Hileman, L.C., and D.A. Baum. 2003. Why do paralogs persist? Molecular evolution of CYCLOIDEA and related floral symmetry genes in Antirrhineae (Veronicaceae). Molecular Biology and Evolution 20(4) 591-600.
Hileman, L.C., M.C. Vasey and V.T. Parker. 2001. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Arbutoideae (Ericaceae): Implications for the Madrean-Tethyan hypothesis. Systematic Botany 26: 131-143.
Shu, G., W. Amaral, L.C. Hileman and D.A. Baum. 2000. LEAFY and the evolution of rosette flowering in violet cress (Jonopsidium acaule, Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany 87:634-641.