Lab baby is born.

Welcome to the world Riley Hopkins Desmarais!

Federico Roda joins the lab

As a postdoc in the lab, Federico will be investigating the genomic signatures of reinforcement and the evolution of self-incompatibility.

Robin’s paper in The American Naturalist is out

We used common garden field experiments and pollinator observation experiments to measure selection on flower color variation. [Hopkins & Rausher 2014]

Strong reinforcing selection in a Texas wildflower.

Hopkins, Robin, Rafael F. Guerrero, Mark D. Rausher, Mark Kirkpatrick. Strong reinforcing selection in a Texas wildflower. 2014. Current Biology 24:1995-1999. (Featured in Current Biology Dispatch by Daniel Matute and Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos) [PDF]

The cost of reinforcement: Selection on flower color in allopatric populations of Phlox drummondii.

Hopkins, Robin, Rausher, Mark D. The cost of reinforcement: Selection on flower color in allopatric populations of Phlox drummondii. 2014. The American Naturalist 183: 693-710. [PDF]

The Unifying Wedge.

Stuart, Yoel, Daniel Bolnick, Robin Hopkins. 2014. The Unifying Wedge. Evolution 68: 614-616. (Invited book review) [PDF]

The Hopkins lab is formed at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

We are excited be the newest lab in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and to join a wonderful community in the gorgeous Weld Hill Research Building at the Arboretum.

2013 Reinforcement in plants.

Hopkins, Robin. 2013 Reinforcement in plants. New Phytologist 197: 1095-1103 [PDF]

Strong differentiation across an edaphic gradient between the gabbro-endemic shrub Ceanothus roderickii (Rhamnaceae) and the soil generalist C. cuneatus.

Burge, D.O., R. Hopkins, Y. Tsai, P. Manos. 2013. Limited hybridization across an edaphic disjunction between the gabbro-endemic shrub Ceanothus roderickii (Rhamnaceae) and the soil generalist C. cuneatus. American Journal of Botany 100: 1883-1895. [PDF]