Publications

Rajpurohit, S., Zhao, X., Schmidt, P.S. 2017. A resource on latitudinal and altitudinal clines of ecologically relevant phenotypes of the Indian Drosophila populations. Scientific Data – Nature 4:170066 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.66.

Cogni, R., Kuczynski, K., Koury, S., Behrman, E.L., O’Brien, K.R., Schmidt, P.S., Eanes, W.F. 2017. On the Long-term Stability of Clines in Some Metabolic Genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific Reports 7:42766. Open Access.

Mathur, V., Schmidt, P.S. 2017. Adaptive patterns of phenotypic plasticity in laboratory and field environments in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 71:465-474.

Rajpurohit, S., Hanus, R., Vrkoslav, V., Behrman, E.L., Bergland, A., Dmitri, P., Cvacka, J., and Schmidt, P.S. 2017. Adaptive dynamics of cuticular hydrocarbon profiles in DrosophilaJournal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 66-80.

Rajpurohit, S., Richardson, R., Dean, J., Vazquez, R., Wong, G., Musselman, A., Schmidt, P.S. 2016. Pigmentation and fitness trade-offs through the lens of artificial selection. Biology Letters DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0625.

Rajpurohit, S., Schmidt, P.S. 2016. Measuring thermal behavior in smaller insects: a case study in Drosophila melanogaster demonstrate effects of sex, geographic origin, and rearing temperature on adult behavior. Fly 10: 149-161.

Bergland, A.O., Tobler, R., González, J., Schmidt, P., Petrov, D. 2016. Secondary contact and local adaptation contribute to genome-wide patterns of clinal variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology 25:1157-1174.

Kapun, M., Schmidt, C., Durmaz, E., Schmidt, P.S., Flatt, T. 2016. Parallel effects of the inversion In(3R)Payne on body size across the North American and Australian clines in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, in press.

Machado, H.E., Bergland, A.O., O’Brien, K.R., Behrman, E.L., Schmidt, P.S., and Petrov, D.A. 2016. Comparative population genomics of latitudinal variation in Drosophila simulans and Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology 25:723-740.

Zhao, X., Bergland, A.O., Behrman, E.L., Gregory, B.D., Petrov, D.A. and Schmidt, P.S. 2015. Global transcriptional profiling of diapause and climatic adpation in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology & Evolution. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv263.

Behrman, E.L., Watson, S.S., O’Brien, K.R., Heschel, M.S., and Schmidt, P.S. 2015. Seasonal variation in life history traits in two Drosophilaspecies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28:1691-1704.

Fabian, D.K., Lack, J.B., Mathur, V., Schlotterer, C., Schmit, P.S., Pool, J.E., Flatt, T. 2015. Spatially varying selection shapes life history clines among populations of Drosophila melanogaster from sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 02/2015; DOI:10.1111/jeb.12607

Cogni, R., Kuczynski, K., Lavington, E., Koury, S., Behrman, E.L., O’Brien, K.R., Schmidt, P.S., Eanes, W.F. 2014. Variation in drosophila melanogaster central metabolic genes appears driven by natural selection both within and between populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282 (1800), art. no. 20142688, 7 p.

Bergland, A.O., Behrman, E.L., O’Brien, K.R., Schmidt, P.S., Petrov, D.A. 2014. Genomic Evidence of Rapid and Stable Adaptive Oscillations over Seasonal Time Scales in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics, 10 (11), 19 p.

Paaby, A.B., Bergland, A.O., Behrman, E.L., Schmidt, P.S. 2014. A highly pleiotropic amino acid polymorphism in the Drosophila insulin receptor contributes to life-history adaptation. Evolution, 68 (12), pp. 3395-3409.

Maguire, S.E., Schmidt, P.S., Sehgal, A. 2014. Natural populations of drosophila melanogaster reveal features of an uncharacterized circadian property: The lower temperature limit of rhythmicity. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 29 (3), pp. 167-180.

Lavington, E., Cogni, R., Kuczynski, C., Koury, S., Behrman, E.L., O’brien, K.R., Schmidt, P.S., Eanes, W.F. 2014. A small system-high-resolution study of metabolic adaptation in the central metabolic pathway to temperate climates in drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 31 (8), pp. 2032-2041.

Cogni, R., Kuczynski, C., Koury, S., Lavington, E., Behrman, E.L., O’Brien, K.R., Schmidt, P.S., Eanes, W.F. 2014. The intensity of selection acting on the couch potato gene-spatial-temporal variation in a diapause cline. Evolution, 68 (2), pp. 538-548.

Fabian, D.K., Kapun, M., Nolte, V., Kofler, R., Schmidt, P.S., Schlötterer, C., Flatt, T. 2012. Genome-wide patterns of latitudinal differentiation among populations of Drosophila melanogaster from North America. Molecular Ecology, 21 (19), pp. 4748-4769.

Schmidt, PS. 2011.  Evolution and mechanisms of insect reproductive diapause: A plastic and pleiotropic life history syndrome.  Mechanisms of Life History Evolution: The Genetics and Physiology of Life History Traits and Trade-offs. T. Flatt and A. Heyland.  Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press: 230-242.

Paaby, AB, MJ Blacket, AA Hoffmann, PS Schmidt. 2010. Identification of a candidate adaptive polymorphism for Drosophila life history by parallel independent clines on two continents.  Molecular Ecology 19:4:760-774. PDF

Taylor, GM, N Keyghobadi, PS Schmidt. 2009. The geography of crushing: variation in claw performance of the invasive crab Carcinus maenas.  Journal of Exermental Marine Biology and Ecology 377:48-53. PDF

Emerson, KJ, AM Uyemra, KL McDaniel, PS Schmidt, WE Bradshaw, CM Holzapfel.  2009. Environmental control of ovarian dormacy in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster.  Journal of Comparative Physiology 196(9):  825-829. PDF

Flatt, T and PS Schmidt. 2009. Integrating evolutionary and molecular genetics of aging. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, doi:10.1016/j.bbagen.2009.07.010. PDF

Paaby, A.B. and P.S. Schmidt. 2009. Dissecting the genetics of longevity in Drosophila melanogaster.  Fly 3(1) :29-38. PDF

Schmidt, P.S., C.T. Zhu, J. Das, M. Batavia, L. Yang and W.F. Eanes.  2008. An amino acid polymorphism in the couch potato gene forms the basis for climatic adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 105(42) 16207-16211.  PDF

Schmidt, P.S., E. A. Serrão, G. A. Pearson, C. Riginos, P. D. Rawson, T. J. Hilbish, S. H. Brawley, G. C. Trussell, E. Carrington, D. S. Wethey, J. W. Grahame, F. Bonhomme and D. M. Rand.  2008. Ecological genetics in the North Atlantic: environmental gradients and adaptation at specific loci. Ecology 89(11): S91-S107. PDF

Williams, K.D., P.S. Schmidt and M.B. Sokolowski.  2008. Photoperiodism in insects: molecular basis and consequences of diapause. Chapter 13 in Photoperiodism: Seasonal Time Measurement, R.J. Nelson, D.L. Denlinger and D. Somers (eds.). Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Paaby, A.B. and P.S. Schmidt. 2008. Functional significance of allelic variation at methuselah, an aging gene in Drosophila. PLoS ONE 3(4) e1987. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0001987.  PDF

Schmidt, P.S. and A.B. Paaby. 2008. Reproductive diapause and life history clines in North American populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 62(5):1204-1215. PDF

Phifer-Rixey, M., M. Heckman, G. Trussell, and P.S. Schmidt. 2008. Maintenance of clinal variation for shell colour phenotype in the flate periwinkle L. obtusata. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21(4): 966-978. PDF

Schmidt, P.S., M. Phifer-Rixey, G.M. Taylor and J.C. Christner. 2007. Genetic heterogeneity among intertidal habitats in the flat periwinkle, Littorina obtusata. Molecular Ecology 16(11): 2393-2404. PDF

Flowers, J.M., E. Sezgin, S. Kumagai, D.D. Duvernell, L.M. Matzkin, P.S. Schmidt and W.F. Eanes. 2007. Adaptive evolution of metabolic pathways in Drosophila. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24: 1347-1354. PDF

Schmidt, P.S. and D.R. Conde. 2006. Environmental heterogeneity and the maintenance of genetic variation for reproductive diapause in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 60(8): 1602-1611. PDF

Schmidt, P.S., L. M. Matzkin, M. Ippolito, and W.F. Eanes. 2005. Geographic variation in diapause incidence, life history traits and climatic adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 59 (8): 1721-1732. PDF

Schmidt, K.S., J.L. Gallo, T. Giovannetti, C. Ferri, N. Sestito, D.J. Libon & P.S. Schmidt. 2005. The neuropsychological profile of alcohol related dementia suggests cortical and subcortical pathology. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 20 (5):286-291. PDF

Schmidt, P.S., A.B. Paaby, and M.S. Heschel. 2005. Genetic variance for diapause expression and associated life histories in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 59 (12): 2616-2625. PDF

Duvernell, D.D., P.S. Schmidt, and W.F. Eanes. 2003. Clines and adaptive evolution in the methuselah gene region in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology 12: 1277-1285. PDF

Rand D.M., T.B. Sackton, P.S. Spaeth and P.S. Schmidt. 2002. Ecological genetics of the Mpi and Gpi polymorphisms in the northern acorn barnacle and the spatial scale of neutral and non-neutral variation. Integ. Comp. Biol. 42: 825-836. PDF

Schmidt, P.S. 2001. The effects of diet and physiological stress on the evolutionary dynamics of an enzyme polymorphism. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 268 (1462): 9-14. PDF

Schmidt, P.S. and D.M. Rand. 2001. Adaptive maintenance of genetic polymorphism in an intertidal barnacle: habitat- and life history stage-specific survivorship of Mpi genotypes. Evolution 55 (7): 1336-1344. PDF

Schmidt, P.S., M. D. Bertness, and D.M. Rand. 2000. Environmental heterogeneity and balancing selection in the northern acorn barnacle, Semibalanus balanoides. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 267: 379-384. PDF

Schmidt, P.S., D.D. Duvernell, and W.F. Eanes. 2000. Adaptive evolution of a candidate gene for aging in Drosophila. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 97(20): 10861-10865. PDF

Schmidt, P.S., and D.M. Rand. 1999. Intertidal microhabitat and selection at Mpi: interlocus contrasts in the northern acorn barnacle, Semibalanus balanoides. Evolution 53(1): 135-146. PDF

Bertness, M.D., G.H. Leonard, J.M. Levine, P.R. Schmidt, and A.O. Ingraham. 1999. Habitat modification by algal canopies: testing the relative contribution of positive and negative interactions in rocky intertidal communities. Ecology 80: 2711-2726. PDF

Leonard, G.H., J.M. Levine, P.R. Schmidt, and M.D. Bertness. 1998. Flow-driven variation in intertidal community structure in a Maine estuary. Ecology 79: 1395-1411. PDF