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Filiault, D., Ballerini, E.S., Mandakova, T., Akoz, G., Derieg, N., Schmutz, J., Jenkins, J., Grimwood, J., Shu, S., Hayes, R., Hellsten, U., Barry, K., Yan, J., Mihaltcheva, S., Karafiatova, M., Nizhynska, V., Lysak, M., Hodges, S.A., Nordborg, M. (2018) The Aquilegia genome: adaptive radiation and an extraordinarily polymorphic chromosome with a unique history. eLife 7:e36426. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.36426
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*co-first authors
Arnold M.L., Ballerini E.S., and Brothers A.N. (2011) Hybrid fitness, adaptation, and evolutionary diversification: lessons learned from Louisiana Irises. Heredity 108:159-166. https://www.nature.com/articles/hdy201165
Ballerini E.S. and Kramer E.K. (2011) In the light of evolution: A reevaluation of conservation in the CO-FT regulon and its role in photoperiodic regulation of flowering time. Frontiers in Plant Science 2:81. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2011.00081
Ballerini E.S. and Kramer E.K. (2011) Environmental and molecular analysis of the floral transition in the lower eudicot Aquilegia formosa. EvoDevo 2:4. http://www.evodevojournal.com/content/2/1/4
