@article{stinchcombe_weinig_ungerer_olsen_mays_halldorsdottir_purugganan_schmitt_2004, title={A latitudinal cline in flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana modulated by the flowering time gene FRIGIDA}, volume={101}, ISSN={["0027-8424"]}, DOI={10.1073/pnas.0306401101}, abstractNote={
            A latitudinal cline in flowering time in accessions of
            Arabidopsis thaliana
            has been widely predicted because the environmental cues that promote flowering vary systematically with latitude, but evidence for such clines has been lacking. Here, we report evidence of a significant latitudinal cline in flowering time among 70 Northern European and Mediterranean ecotypes when grown under ecologically realistic conditions in a common garden environment. The detected cline, however, is found only in ecotypes with alleles of the flowering time gene
            FRIGIDA
            (
            FRI
            ) that lack major deletions that would disrupt protein function, whereas there is no relationship between flowering time and latitude of origin among accessions with
            FRI
            alleles containing such deletions. Analysis of climatological data suggests that late flowering in accessions with putatively functional
            FRI
            was associated with reduced January precipitation at the site of origin, consistent with previous reports of a positive genetic correlation between water use efficiency and flowering time in
            Arabidopsis
            , and the pleiotropic effects of
            FRI
            of increasing water use efficiency. In accessions collected from Southern latitudes, we detected that putatively functional
            FRI
            alleles were associated with accelerated flowering relative to accessions with nonfunctional
            FRI
            under the winter conditions of our experiment. These results suggest that the ecological function of the vernalization requirement conferred by
            FRI
            differs across latitudes. More generally, our results indicate that by combining ecological and molecular genetic data, it is possible to understand the forces acting on life history transitions at the level of specific loci.
          }, number={13}, journal={PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA}, author={Stinchcombe, JR and Weinig, C and Ungerer, M and Olsen, KM and Mays, C and Halldorsdottir, SS and Purugganan, MD and Schmitt, J}, year={2004}, month={Mar}, pages={4712–4717} }
 @article{olsen_halldorsdottir_stinchcombe_weinig_schmitt_purugganan_2004, title={Linkage disequilibrium mapping of Arabidopsis CRY2 flowering time alleles}, volume={167}, ISSN={["1943-2631"]}, DOI={10.1534/genetics.103.024950}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={3}, journal={GENETICS}, author={Olsen, KM and Halldorsdottir, SS and Stinchcombe, JR and Weinig, C and Schmitt, J and Purugganan, MD}, year={2004}, month={Jul}, pages={1361–1369} }
 @article{ungerer_halldorsdottir_purugganan_mackay_2003, title={Genotype-environment interactions at quantitative trait loci affecting inflorescence development in Arabidopsis thaliana}, volume={165}, number={1}, journal={Genetics}, author={Ungerer, M. C. and Halldorsdottir, S. S. and Purugganan, M. D. and Mackay, T. F. C.}, year={2003}, month={Sep}, pages={353–365} }
 @article{weinig_ungerer_dorn_kane_toyonaga_halldorsdottir_mackay_purugganan_schmitt_2002, title={Novel loci control variation in reproductive timing in Arabidopsis thaliana in natural environments}, volume={162}, number={4}, journal={Genetics}, author={Weinig, C. and Ungerer, M. C. and Dorn, L. A. and Kane, N. C. and Toyonaga, Y. and Halldorsdottir, S. S. and Mackay, T. F. C. and Purugganan, M. D. and Schmitt, J.}, year={2002}, month={Dec}, pages={1875–1884} }
 @article{ungerer_halldorsdottir_modliszewski_mackay_purugganan_2002, title={Quantitative trait loci for inflorescence development in Arabidopsis thaliana}, volume={160}, number={3}, journal={Genetics}, author={Ungerer, M. C. and Halldorsdottir, S. S. and Modliszewski, J. L. and Mackay, T. F. C. and Purugganan, M. D.}, year={2002}, month={Mar}, pages={1133–1151} }