University of Toronto
Vera Velasco/Kathryn Harris-Howard
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/research-innovation/research-innovation-core
RRID: RRID:SCR_028286
1.) Alberti M, Grimm NB, Palkovacs EP, Urban MC, Verrelli BC, Anderson P, Carlen EJ, Cocciardi JM, Cook EM, Fortin MJ, Gotanda KM, Hobbie SE, Johnson MTJ, Li D, Malesis-Dahm AN, Miles LS, Munshi-South J, Román-Palacios C, Phifer-Rixey M, Salazar-Valenzuela D, Savage AM, Snyder R, Winchell KM, Zhou Y (2026 May 14). Evolving nature-based solutions for urban resilience. Science (New York, N.Y.), 392(6799), 701-708. doi: 10.1126/science.aea9563. ID: 42133754.
2.) Albano LJ, Patterson CM, Kidder EJ, Kooyers NJ, Johnson MTJ (2026 Apr 2). A field experiment assessing the roles of drought, herbivory, and local climate on cyanogenesis cline formation and local adaptation in Trifolium repens. Journal of evolutionary biology, 39(4), 535-551. doi: 10.1093/jeb/voag008. ID: 41700727.
3.) Rivkin LR, Garroway CJ, Johnson MTJ (2026 Apr). A Multi-City Assessment of Genomic Evolution in the Native Wildflower Impatiens capensis. Evolutionary applications, 19(4), e70218. . ID: 42037757.
4.) Martin E, Johnson MTJ (2025 Dec). Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover. Nature ecology & evolution, 9(12), 2322-2332. doi: 10.1038/s41559-025-02892-4. ID: 41184487.
5.) Santangelo JS, Johnson MTJ, Ness RW (2025 Oct 17). Signatures of selective sweeps in urban and rural white clover populations. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 79(10), 2115-2132. doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpaf138. ID: 40623003.
6.) Battlay P, Hendrickson BT, Mendez-Reneau JI, Santangelo JS, Albano LJ, Wilson J, Caizergues AE, King N, Puentes A, Tudoran A, Violle C, Vasseur F, Patterson CM, Foster M, Stamps C, Innes SG, Allio R, Angeoletto F, Anstett DN, Anstett J, Bucharova A, Comerford MS, David S, Falahati-Anbaran M, Godsoe W, González-Lagos C, Gundel PE, Hood GR, Lampei C, Lara C, Lázaro-Lobo A, Silva Leandro D, Merritt TJS, Mitchell N, Mohammadi Bazargani M, Moles A, Murúa M, Paule J, Pfeiffer V, Raeymaekers JAM, Renni (2025 Aug). Haploblocks contribute to parallel climate adaptation following global invasion of a cosmopolitan plant. Nature ecology & evolution, 9(8), 1441-1455. . ID: 40629086.
7.) Murphy BK, Lorusso S, Isabel N, Ensminger I (2025 Jul 3). Contrasting effects of warming and drought on autumn phenology of photosynthesis and growth in white spruce. Plant physiology, 198(3), . . ID: 40638778.
8.) Johnson MTJ (2025 Apr). An eco-evolutionary game of hide-and-seek. Nature ecology & evolution, 9(4), 535-536. doi: 10.1038/s41559-025-02646-2. ID: 40065028.
9.) Breitbart ST, Johnson MTJ, Wagner HH (2025 Apr). Anthropogenic Landscape Alteration, but Not Urbanization, Influences Non-Adaptive Evolution in Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.). Ecology and evolution, 15(4), e71250. . ID: 40256264.
10.) Johnson MTJ, Nassrullah Z (2024 Oct 10). The improbability of detecting trade-offs and some practical solutions. Journal of evolutionary biology, 37(10), 1205-1214. doi: 10.1093/jeb/voae096. ID: 39110030.
11.) Johnson MTJ, Arif I, Marchetti F, Munshi-South J, Ness RW, Szulkin M, Verrelli BC, Yauk CL, Anstett DN, Booth W, Caizergues AE, Carlen EJ, Dant A, González J, Lagos CG, Oman M, Phifer-Rixey M, Rennison DJ, Rosenberg MS, Winchell KM (2024 Jun). Effects of urban-induced mutations on ecology, evolution and health. Nature ecology & evolution, 8(6), 1074-1086. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02401-z. ID: 38641700.
12.) De Meester L, Vázquez-Domínguez E, Kassen R, Forest F, Bellon MR, Koskella B, Scherson RA, Colli L, Hendry AP, Crandall KA, Faith DP, Starger CJ, Geeta R, Araki H, Dulloo EM, Souffreau C, Schroer S, Johnson MTJ (2024 Jun). A link between evolution and society fostering the UN sustainable development goals. Evolutionary applications, 17(6), e13728. . ID: 38884021.
13.) Santangelo JS, Battlay P, Hendrickson BT, Kuo WH, Olsen KM, Kooyers NJ, Johnson MTJ, Hodgins KA, Ness RW (2023 Aug 1). Haplotype-Resolved, Chromosome-Level Assembly of White Clover (Trifolium repens L., Fabaceae). Genome biology and evolution, 15(8), . . ID: 37542471.
14.) Reyes-Corral WD, Carvajal-Endara S, Hetherington-Rauth M, Chaves JA, Grant PR, Grant BR, Hendry AP, Johnson MTJ (2023 Mar). Phenotypic divergence of traits that mediate antagonistic and mutualistic interactions between island and continental populations of the tropical plant, Tribulus cistoides (Zygophyllaceae). Ecology and evolution, 13(3), e9766. . ID: 36969922.
15.) Velasco VME, Ferreira A, Zaman S, Noordermeer D, Ensminger I, Wegrzyn JL (2023 Feb 9). A long-read and short-read transcriptomics approach provides the first high-quality reference transcriptome and genome annotation for Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir). G3 (Bethesda, Md.), 13(2), . . ID: 36454025.
16.) Innes SG, Santangelo JS, Kooyers NJ, Olsen KM, Johnson MTJ (2022 Jul). Evolution in response to climate in the native and introduced ranges of a globally distributed plant. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 76(7), 1495-1511. doi: 10.1111/evo.14514. ID: 35589013.
17.) Santangelo JS, Ness RW, Cohan B, Fitzpatrick CR, Innes SG, Koch S, Miles LS, Munim S, Peres-Neto PR, Prashad C, Tong AT, Aguirre WE, Akinwole PO, Alberti M, Álvarez J, Anderson JT, Anderson JJ, Ando Y, Andrew NR, Angeoletto F, Anstett DN, Anstett J, Aoki-Gonçalves F, Arietta AZA, Arroyo MTK, Austen EJ, Baena-Díaz F, Barker CA, Baylis HA, Beliz JM, Benitez-Mora A, Bickford D, Biedebach G, Blackburn GS, Boehm MMA, Bonser SP, Bonte D, Bragger JR, Branquinho C, Brans KI, Bresciano JC, Brom PD, Bucha (2022 Mar 18). Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science (New York, N.Y.), 375(6586), 1275-1281. doi: 10.1126/science.abk0989. ID: 35298255.
18.) Rivkin LR, Johnson RA, Chaves JA, Johnson MTJ (2021 Nov). Urbanization alters interactions between Darwin Ecology and evolution, 11(22), 15754-15765. . ID: 34824787.
19.) Porcar-Castell A, Malenovský Z, Magney T, Van Wittenberghe S, Fernández-Marín B, Maignan F, Zhang Y, Maseyk K, Atherton J, Albert LP, Robson TM, Zhao F, Garcia-Plazaola JI, Ensminger I, Rajewicz PA, Grebe S, Tikkanen M, Kellner JR, Ihalainen JA, Rascher U, Logan B (2021 Aug). Chlorophyll a fluorescence illuminates a path connecting plant molecular biology to Earth-system science. Nature plants, 7(8), 998-1009. doi: 10.1038/s41477-021-00980-4. ID: 34373605.
20.) Chang CY, Bräutigam K, Hüner NPA, Ensminger I (2021 Jan). Champions of winter survival: cold acclimation and molecular regulation of cold hardiness in evergreen conifers. The New phytologist, 229(2), 675-691. doi: 10.1111/nph.16904. ID: 32869329.
21.) Miles LS, Carlen EJ, Winchell KM, Johnson MTJ (2021 Jan). Urban evolution comes into its own: Emerging themes and future directions of a burgeoning field. Evolutionary applications, 14(1), 3-11. . ID: 33519952.
22.) Des Roches S, Brans KI, Lambert MR, Rivkin LR, Savage AM, Schell CJ, Correa C, De Meester L, Diamond SE, Grimm NB, Harris NC, Govaert L, Hendry AP, Johnson MTJ, Munshi-South J, Palkovacs EP, Szulkin M, Urban MC, Verrelli BC, Alberti M (2021 Jan). Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in cities. Evolutionary applications, 14(1), 248-267. . ID: 33519968.
23.) Fréchette E, Chang CY, Ensminger I (2020 Sep). Variation in the phenology of photosynthesis among eastern white pine provenances in response to warming. Global change biology, 26(9), 5217-5234. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15150. ID: 32396692.
24.) Wong CYS, D (2020 Jun). Tracking the phenology of photosynthesis using carotenoid-sensitive and near-infrared reflectance vegetation indices in a temperate evergreen and mixed deciduous forest. The New phytologist, 226(6), 1682-1695. doi: 10.1111/nph.16479. ID: 32039477.
25.) D (2020 Jun). High-throughput drone-based remote sensing reliably tracks phenology in thousands of conifer seedlings. The New phytologist, 226(6), 1667-1681. doi: 10.1111/nph.16488. ID: 32157698.
26.) Santangelo JS, Thompson KA, Cohan B, Syed J, Ness RW, Johnson MTJ (2020 Jun). Predicting the strength of urban-rural clines in a Mendelian polymorphism along a latitudinal gradient. Evolution letters, 4(3), 212-225. . ID: 32547782.
27.) Johnson MKA, Johnson OPJ, Johnson RA, Johnson MTJ (2020 Feb). The role of spines in anthropogenic seed dispersal on the Galápagos Islands. Ecology and evolution, 10(3), 1639-1647. . ID: 32076540.
28.) Chang CY, Fréchette E, Unda F, Mansfield SD, Ensminger I (2016 Oct). Elevated Temperature and CO2 Stimulate Late-Season Photosynthesis But Impair Cold Hardening in Pine. Plant physiology, 172(2), 802-818. . ID: 27591187.
29.) Chang CY, Unda F, Mansfield SD, Ensminger I (2023 Nov-Dec). Rapid response of nonstructural carbohydrate allocation and photosynthesis to short photoperiod, low temperature, or elevated CO(2) in Pinus strobus. Physiologia plantarum, 175(6), e14095. doi: 10.1111/ppl.14095. ID: 38148184.
30.) Wang S, Murphy BK, Perkins N, Ensminger I (2025 Nov-Dec). Early Autumn: Drought Accelerates Leaf Senescence in Temperate Tree Species. Physiologia plantarum, 177(6), e70700. . ID: 41424177.
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