Christina L. Richards

Failure to invest below-ground may limit the northern expansion of invasive knotweed: lessons from a two-phase transplant experiment

Abstract The ecological and evolutionary processes determining species distributions and range limits remain poorly understood. Ultimately, range limits depend on the species’ abilities to persist under heterogeneous conditions, by adaptive differentiation and phenotypic plastici...

Partial Reproducibility and Pleiotropic Epigenetic QTLs in Arabidopsis Recombinant Inbred Lines

Unlike conventional genetic polymorphisms, many induced epigenetic polymorphisms can be reset across generations, raising uncertainty about how consistently the same epigenetic loci and associated phenotypic effects can be recovered among independent studies. To address this prob...