{"id":795,"date":"2016-01-29T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/?page_id=795"},"modified":"2016-02-02T20:48:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:48:35","slug":"mimulus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/interests\/mimulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><i><b>Mimulus <\/b><\/i><\/span>(Scrophulariaceae) is a large genus of showy flowering plants. An enormous amount of scientific study is now focused on understanding the population and evolutionary biology of this genus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_799\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1291\/2016\/01\/Mimulus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-799\" class=\"wp-image-799 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1291\/2016\/01\/Mimulus-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mimulus\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sample from the Akron area. Scanned on a flatbed scanner, right in field.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My work focuses on <i>Mimulus ringens <\/i>(square stem monkey flower), in collaboration with Dr. <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uwm.edu\/Dept\/Biology\/Docs\/Faculty\/karron.html\">Jeff Karron<\/a><\/span> of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. We are studying the <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/biology\/mitchell\/mimulus\/nsf98.html\">effects of daily floral display<\/a><\/span> (the number of flowers open on a plant at any one time) on selfing rates and reproductive success through both male and female functions.<\/p>\n<p><b>Links:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uwm.edu\/Dept\/Biology\/Docs\/Faculty\/karron.html\">Jeff Karron<\/a><\/span> Lab &#8211; U. Wisconsin Milwaukee<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uwm.edu\/News\/Features\/06.10\/Bumblebees.html\">News article<\/a><\/span> profiling work on <i>Mimulus ringens<\/i> by Jeff and Becky Flanagan<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biology.duke.edu\/mimulus\/\">Mimulus Biological Resource Center<\/a><\/span> (integrative biology project)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biology.duke.edu\/willislab\/labresearch.htm\">Willis <\/a><\/span>Lab (Duke University)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_803\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1291\/2016\/01\/mr-cometrd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-803\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-803\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1291\/2016\/01\/mr-cometrd-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mimulus ringens from the Akron area.\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mimulus ringens from the Akron area.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/students.washington.edu\/~pbeard\/%20\/\">Work at the University of Washington<\/a><\/span> &#8211; Olmstead, <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/students.washington.edu\/~pbeard\/%20\/\">Beardsley<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kermit <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forestry.ubc.ca\/people\/ritland.html\">Ritland<\/a><\/span>, Ritland <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/genetics.forestry.ubc.ca\/ritland\/\">Lab Group<\/a><\/span> (UBC)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.life.umd.edu\/biology\/faculty\/dudash\/index.html\">Dudash<\/a><\/span> Lab (University of Maryland)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.life.umd.edu\/biology\/faculty\/fenster\/index.html\">Fenster<\/a><\/span> Lab (University of Maryland)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.evsc.virginia.edu\/faculty\/people\/carr.shtml\">Carr Lab<\/a><\/span> (University of Virginia)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ex.ac.uk\/~MRMacnai\/guttatus.html\">MacNair Lab<\/a><\/span> (University of Exeter, UK)<\/p>\n<p>Dole Lab (University of Tennessee)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.people.virginia.edu\/~lg8b\/\">Galloway<\/a><\/span> Lab (University of Virginia)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/biology.fullerton.edu\/courses\/biol_340\/web\/maurantiacus\/\">Anh Nguyen&#8217;s World of <i>Mimulus aurantiacus\u00a0<\/i><\/a><\/span><i>\u00a0 (<\/i>Cal State Fullerton)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/~aroberts\/\/\">Alastair Robertson&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> Lab<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimulus (Scrophulariaceae) is a large genus of showy flowering plants. An enormous amount of scientific study is now focused on understanding the population and evolutionary biology of this genus. My work focuses on Mimulus ringens (square stem monkey flower), in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/interests\/mimulus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"parent":619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-795","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795\/revisions\/807"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}