Recent Publications


BW Stone & CA Wessinger (2024). Ecological diversification in an adaptive radiation of plants: the role of de novo mutation and introgression. Molecular Biology and Evolution


Wessinger CA (2024). How the switch to hummingbird pollination has greatly contributed to our understanding of evolutionary processes. New Phytologist Tansley Insight


Wessinger CA, AM Katzer, PM Hime, MD Rausher, JK Kelly, & LC Hileman (2023). A few genetic loci distinguish Penstemon species with flowers adapted to pollination by bees or hummingbirds. PLoS Biology 21(9), e3002294


Dellinger AS, AM Hamilton, CA Wessinger, & SD Smith (2023). Opposing patterns of altitude-drive pollinator turnover in the tropical and temperate Americas. The American Naturalist 202, 152-165


Stevens JTES, LC Wheeler, NH Williams, AM Norton, & CA Wessinger (2023). Predictive links between petal color and pigment quantities in natural Penstemon hybrids. Integrative and Comparative Biology


Hamilton AM & CA Wessinger (2022). Adaptation to lower latitudes and lower elevations precedes the evolution of hummingbird pollination in western North American Penstemon. American Journal of Botany 6, 1047-1055


Wessinger CA (2020). From pollen dispersal to plant diversification: genetic consequences of pollination mode. New Phytologist.


Wessinger CA & LC Hileman (2020). Parallelism in flower evolution and development. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 51, 387-408.


Katzer AM, CA Wessinger, & LC Hileman (2019). Nectary size is a pollination syndrome trait in Penstemon. New Phytologist, 223(1), 377-384.


Wessinger CA, MD Rausher, & LC Hileman (2019). Adaptation to hummingbird pollination is associated with reduced diversification in Penstemon. Evolution letters, 3(5), 521-533.


Wessinger CA, JK Kelly, P Jiang, MD Rausher, & LC Hileman (2018). SNP‐skimming: A fast approach to map loci generating quantitative variation in natural populations. Molecular ecology resources, 18(6), 1402-1414.


Wessinger CA & JK Kelly (2018). Selfing can facilitate transitions between pollination syndromes. The American Naturalist, 191(5), 582-594.