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Dr Maddie James

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of the Environment
m.james4@uq.edu.au
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Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (12)
Thesis (1)
Data Collections (2)

Book Chapter

James, Maddie E. and Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel (2025). Genetic Basis of Adaptation. Reference Module in Life Sciences. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-443-15750-9.00112-9

Journal Articles

James, Maddie E. and Ortiz‐Barrientos, Daniel (2024). The genomic consequences of selection across development. Molecular Ecology, 33 (4) e17280, e17280. doi: 10.1111/mec.17280
James, Maddie E., Allsopp, Robin N., Groh, Jeffrey S., Kaur, Avneet, Wilkinson, Melanie J. and Ortiz‐Barrientos, Daniel (2023). Uncovering the genetic architecture of parallel evolution. Molecular Ecology, 32 (20), 5575-5589. doi: 10.1111/mec.17134
James, Maddie E., Brodribb, Tim, Wright, Ian J., Rieseberg, Loren H. and Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel (2023). Replicated evolution in plants. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 74 (1), 697-725. doi: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-071221-090809
Wilkinson, Melanie J., Yamashita, Risa, James, Maddie E., Bally, Ian S. E., Dillon, Natalie L., Ali, Asjad, Hardner, Craig M. and Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel (2022). The influence of genetic structure on phenotypic diversity in the Australian mango (Mangifera indica) gene pool. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 20614, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-24800-7
James, Maddie E., O'Brien, Nicholas L. V. and Bukkuri, Anuraag (2022). Digest: Stable phenotypes, fluid genotypes: how stochasticity impacts network evolution and speciation. Evolution, 76 (4), 821-823. doi: 10.1111/evo.14452
Wilkinson, Melanie J., Roda, Federico, Walter, Greg M., James, Maddie E., Nipper, Rick, Walsh, Jessica, Allen, Scott L., North, Henry L., Beveridge, Christine A. and Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel (2021). Adaptive divergence in shoot gravitropism creates hybrid sterility in an Australian wildflower. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (47) e2004901118, e2004901118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2004901118
James, Maddie E., Wilkinson, Melanie J., Bernal, Diana M., Liu, Huanle, North, Henry L., Engelstädter, Jan and Ortiz‐Barrientos, Daniel (2021). Phenotypic and genotypic parallel evolution in parapatric ecotypes of Senecio. Evolution, 75 (12), 3115-3131. doi: 10.1111/evo.14387
Parry, Rhys, James, Maddie E. and Asgari, Sassan (2021). Uncovering the worldwide diversity and evolution of the virome of the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Microorganisms, 9 (8) 1653, 1653. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9081653
James, Maddie E., Arenas-Castro, Henry, Groh, Jeffrey S., Allen, Scott L., Engelstädter, Jan and Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel (2021). Highly replicated evolution of parapatric ecotypes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38 (11), 4805-4821. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab207
Ortiz-Barrientos, D. and James, M. E. (2017). Evolution of recombination rates and the genomic landscape of speciation. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30 (8), 1519-1521. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13116
Walter, Greg M., Wilkinson, Melanie J., James, Maddie E., Richards, Thomas J., Aguirre, J. David and Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel (2016). Diversification across a heterogeneous landscape. Evolution, 70 (9), 1979-1992. doi: 10.1111/evo.13009
Roda, Federico, Liu, Huanle, Wilkinson, Melanie J., Walter, Gregory M., James, Maddie E., Bernal, Diana M., Melo, Maria C., Lowe, Andrew, Rieseberg, Loren H., Prentis, Peter and Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel (2013). Convergence and divergence during the adaptation to similar environments by an Australian groundsel. Evolution, 67 (9), 2515-2529. doi: 10.1111/evo.12136

Thesis

James, Maddie (2021). The nature of parallel evolution. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/f9e2a5c

Data Collections

Allsopp, Robin, James, Maddie, Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel, Wilkinson, Melanie, Groh, Jeffrey and Kaur, Avneet (2023). Data associated with publication: James et al. "Uncovering the genetic architecture of parallel evolution". The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/40dec7a
Wilkinson, Melanie J., Roda, Federico, Walter, Greg M., James, Maddie E., Nipper, Rick, Walsh, Jessica, Allen, Scott L., North, Henry L., Beveridge, Christine A. and Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel (2021). Data associated with forthcoming publication - Wilkinson et al. 2021 - "Adaptive divergence in shoot gravitropism creates hybrid sterility in an Australian wildflower". The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/2c603c6
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