Kathleen Donohue
Post - Assistant Professor
Harvard University Address
Kathleen Donohue
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Main research topics
Kathleen is interested in evolutionary ecology and evolutionary genetics. Her research is directed to investigate complex evolutional characters including phenotypic plasticity, dispersal, dormancy, and parental effects.
Ecological genetics in Arabidopsis thaliana
The Lab investigates the evolutionary ecology of mobility through investigation of seed dormancy and dispersal.
The evolution of seed dispersal
Dispersal is a major factor that influences the rate and outcome of evolution. It is therefore of considerable interest to investigate how dispersal evolves. In plants dispersal is maternally determined. We use the Great Lakes sea rocket to investigate the evolution of dispersal.
The evolution of phenotypic plasticity
This project studies the evolution of plant responses to vegetation shade. To this aim we use the model system Impatiens capensis.
Selected publications
Donohue, Kathleen, Dorn, Lisa, Griffith, Converse, Kim, EunSuk, Aguilera, Anna, Polisetty, Chandra R., Schmitt, Johanna. 2005: THE EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF SEED GERMINATION OF ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA: VARIABLE NATURAL SELECTION ON GERMINATION TIMING. Evolution: Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 758–770.
Donohue, K. 2002. Germination timing influences natural selection on life-history characters in Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecology 83:1006-1016.
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