Selected Publications

• Weber, A. L., R. M. Clark, L. Vaughn, J. J. Sanchez-Gonzalez, J. Yu, B. Yandell, P. Bradbury, and J. F. Doebley. 2007. Major regulatory genes in maize contribute to standing variation in teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis). Genetics 177: 2349-2359. [pdf]
   
• Briggs, W. H., M. Mc Mullen, B. Gaut, and J. F. Doebley. 2007. Linkage mapping of domestication loci in a large maize-teosinte backcross resource. Genetics 177:1915-28. [pdf]
   
• Doebley, J., B. Gaut and B. Smith. 2006. The molecular genetics of domestication. Cell 127: 1309-21.[pdf]
   
• Doebley, J. 2006. Unfallen grains: How ancient farmers turned weeds into crops. Science 312:1318-1319. [pdf]
   
• Clark, R, T. Nussbaum-Wagler, P. Quijada and J. Doebley. 2006.  A distant upstream enhancer at the maize domestication gene, tb1, has pleiotropic effects on plant and inflorescent architecture.  Nature Genetics 38: 594-597. [pdf]
   
• Bomblies, K., and J. Doebley.  2006.  Pleiotropic effects of the duplicate maize FLORICAULA/LEAFY genes zfl1 and zfl2 on traits under selection during maize domestication.  Genetics 172: 519-531. [pdf]
   
• Clark, R. M., S. Tavaré, and J. Doebley.  2005.  Estimating a nucleotide substitution rate for maize from polymorphism at a major domestication locus.  Mol. Biol. Evol. 22: 2304–2312. [pdf]
   
• Wang, H., T. Nussbaum-Wagler, B. Li, Q. Zhao, Y. Vigouroux, M. Faller, K. Bomblies, L. Lukens, and J. Doebley. 2005. The origin of the naked grains of maize. Nature 436: 714-719. [pdf]
     
• Fukunaga, K., J. Hill, Y. Vigouroux, Y. Matsuoka, J. SanchezG., K. Liu, E. S. Buckler and J. Doebley.  2005.  Genetic diversity and population structure of teosinte. Genetics 169: 2241-2254. [pdf] [Supplemental Files: passport data, SSR markers, Structure results, Tree]
   
• Vigouroux, Y., S. Mitchell, Y. Matsuoka, M. Hamblin, S. Kresovich, J. S. C. Smith, J. Jaqueth, O. S. Smith and J. Doebley. 2005. An analysis of genetic diversity across the maize genome using microsatellites. Genetics 169: 1617-1630.  [pdf]
   
• Doebley, J. F. 2004. The genetics of maize evolution. Annual Review of Genetics 38: 37-59.   [pdf]
   
• Lauter, N., C. Gustus, A. Westerbergh and J. Doebley. 2004. The inheritance and evolution of leaf pigmentation and pubescence in teosinte. Genetics 167: 1949-1959.   [pdf]
   
• Clark, R. M., E. Linton, J. Messing, and J. Doebley. 2004. Pattern of diversity in the genomic region near the maize domestication gene, tb1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 700-707.   [pdf]
   
• Liu, K., M. M. Goodman, S. Muse, J. S. C. Smith, E. S. Buckler, and J. Doebley. 2003. Genetic structure and diversity among maize Inbred lines as inferred from DNA microsatellites. Genetics 165: 2117-2128.   [pdf]
   
• Vigouroux, Y., Y. Matsuoka and J. Doebley. 2003. Directional evolution for microsatellite size in maize. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20: 1480-1483.   [pdf]
   
• Bomblies, K., R.-L. Wang, B. A. Ambrose, R. J. Schmidt, R. B. Meeley, and J. Doebley. 2003. Duplicate FLORICAULA/LEAFY homologs zfl1 and zfl2 control inflorescence architecture and flower patterning in maize. Development 130: 2385-2395.   [pdf]
   
• Lauter, N. and J. Doebley. 2002. Genetic variation for phenotypically invariant traits detected in teosinte: implications for the evolution of novel forms. Genetics 160:333-342.   [pdf]
   
• Matsuoka, Y., S. E. Mitchell, S. Kresovich, M. Goodman and J. Doebley. 2002. Microsatellites in Zea - variability, patterns of mutations, and use for evolutionary studies. Theor. Appl. Genet. 104:436-450.   [pdf]
   
• Westerbergh, A. and J. Doebley. 2002. Morphological traits defining species differences in wild relatives of maize are controlled by multiple QTL. Evolution 56:273-283.   [pdf]
   
• Matsuoka, Y., Y. Vigouroux, M. M. Goodman, J. Sanchez G., E. Buckler and J. Doebley. 2002. A single domestication for maize shown by multilocus microsatellite genotyping. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:6080-6084.   [pdf]
   
• Vigouroux, Yves., Jennifer S. Jaqueth, Yoshihiro Matsuoka, Oscar S. Smith, William D. Beavis, J. Stephen C. Smith and John Doebley. 2002. Rate and pattern of mutation at microsatellite loci in maize. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19: 1251-1260.   [pdf]
   
• Vigouroux, Y., M. McMullen, C. T. Hittinger, K. Houchins, L. Schulz, S. Kresovich, Y. Matsuoka and J. Doebley. 2002. Identifying genes of agronomic importance in maize by screening microsatellites for evidence of selection during domestication. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 9650-9655.   [pdf]
   
• Hubbard, L., P. McSteen, J. Doebley and S. Hake. 2002. Expression patterns and mutant phenotype of teosinte branched1 correlate with growth suppression in maize and teosinte. Genetics 162:1927-1935.   [pdf]
   
• Doebley, J. 2001. George Beadle's other hypothesis: one-gene, one-trait. Genetics 158:487-493.   [pdf]
   
• Bennetzen, J., E. Buckler, V. Chandler, J. Doebley, J. Dorweiler, B. Gaut, M. Freeling, S. Hake, E. Kellogg, R. S. Poethig, V. Walbot, and S. Wessler. 2001. Genetic evidence and the origin of maize. Latin American Antiquity. 12:84-86.   [pdf]
   
• Lukens, L. N. and J. Doebley. 2001. Molecular evolution of the teosinte branched gene among maize and related grasses. Mol. Biol. Evol 18:627-638.   [pdf]
   
• Wang, R.-L., A. Stec, J. Hey, L. Lukens, and J. Doebley. 1999. The limits of selection during maize domestication. Nature 398:236-239.   [pdf]
   
• Cubas, P., N. Lauter, J. Doebley and E. Coen. 1999 The TCP domain: a motif found in proteins regulating plant growth and development. The Plant Journal 18: 215-222. [pdf]
   
• White, S. and J. Doebley. 1999. The molecular evolution of terminal ear1, a regulatory gene in the genus Zea. Genetics 153: 1455-1462.   [pdf]
   
• Lukens, L. N. and J. Doebley. 1999. Epistatic and environmental interactions for quantitative trait loci involved in maize evolution. Genet. Res. 74: 291-302.   [pdf]
   
• Doebley, J. and L. Lukens. 1998. Transcriptional regulation and the evolution of plant form. Plant Cell 10(7):1075-1082.   [pdf]
   
• Doebley, J., A. Stec and L. Hubbard. 1997. The evolution of apical dominance in maize. Nature 386: 485-488.   [pdf]
   
• Gaut, B. and J. Doebley. 1997. DNA Sequence evidence for the segmental allotetraploid origin of maize. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 94:6809-6814.   [pdf]
   
• Doebley, J., A. Stec and C. Gustus. 1995. Teosinte branched1 and the origin of maize: evidence for epistasis and the evolution of dominance. Genetics 141:333-346.   [pdf]
   
• Dorweiler, J., A. Stec, J. Kermicle and J. Doebley. 1993. Teosinte glume architecture 1: A genetic locus controlling a key step in maize evolution. Science 262:233-235.   [pdf]
   

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