Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Assistant Professor
rossibarra@ucdavis.edu

Plant Science

Office
262A Robbins Hall
(530) 752 1152


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Degrees:
2006 PhD University of Georgia Genetics
2000 MS UC Riverside Botany
1998 BA UC Riverside Botany
Department and Center Affiliations:
Professional Societies:
Botanical Society of America
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Genetics  
Plant Biology  
Publications: Last updated 10/17/2009
  • Hollister, J.D., J. Ross-Ibarra, B.S. Gaut. 2009. Indel-associated mutation rate varies with mating system in flowering plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution. In press
  • van Heerwaarden, J., F. A. van Eeuwijk, and J. Ross-Ibarra. 2009. Genetic diversity in a crop metapopulation. Heredity In Press
  • Zhang, L-B., Q. Zhu, Z-Q. Wu, J. Ross-Ibarra, B.S. Gaut, S. Ge, and T. Sang. 2009. Selection on grain shattering genes and rates of rice domestication. New Phytologist In Press
  • Ross-Ibarra, J., M. Tenaillon, and B.S. Gaut. 2009. Historical divergence in the genus Zea. Genetics 181: 1399-1413
  • Lockton, S., J. Ross-Ibarra, and B.S. Gaut. 2008. Demography and weak selection drive patterns of transposable element diversity in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata. PNAS 105(37): 13965–13970.
  • Ross-Ibarra J, Wright SI, Foxe JP, Kawabe A, DeRose-Wilson L, Gos G, Charlesworth D, Gaut BS. 2008. Patterns of polymorphism and demographic history in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata. PLoS ONE 3(6): e2411.
  • Gaut, B.S., and J. Ross-Ibarra. 2008. Selection on major components of Angiosperm genomes. Science 320: 484-486.
  • Ross-Ibarra, J. and B.S. Gaut. 2008. Multiple domestications do not appear monophyletic (Letter). PNAS 105: E105
  • Ross-Ibarra, J. 2007. Genome size and recombination in Angiosperms: a second look. J. Evol. Biol. 20:800-806.
  • Ross-Ibarra, J., B.S. Gaut, and P. Morrell. 2007. Plant domestication: a unique opportunity to identify the genetic basis of adaptation. PNAS 104 (S1): 8641-8648
  • Wares, J., P. Barber, J. Ross-Ibarra, R. Toonen, and E. Sotka. 2006. Mitochondrial DNA and Population Size (Letter). Science 314: 1388-1389.
  • Ross-Ibarra, J. 2005. QTL Mapping and the study of plant domestication. Genetica 123:197-204
  • Ross-Ibarra, J. 2004. Evolution of recombination under domestication: a test of two hypotheses. American Naturalist 163:105-112
  • Ross-Ibarra, J. 2003. Origen y domesticacion de la chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius Mill. I.M. Johnst.): la espinaca Maya. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 19: 287-302
  • Ross-Ibarra, J., and A. Molina Cruz. 2002. The ethnobotany of chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius ssp. aconitifolius Breckon): a nutritious Maya vegetable. Economic Botany 56(4): 350-365
  • Neel, M.C., J. Ross-Ibarra, and N.C. Ellstrand. 2001. Implications of mating patterns for conservation of the endangered plant Eriogonum ovalifolium var. vineum (Polygonaceae). American Journal of Botany 88:1214-1222
Courses:
Genetics GGG 292 Seminar in Plant Breeding and Biodiversity Fall 2009
Genetics GGG 201D Quantitative and Population Genetics Winter 2010