Publications

    In Review or Preprint

  1. Venditti JG, Robinson KA, Patterson DA, Wright M, Carr J, Hurson M, Ross C, Larimer J, Heathfield D, Menounos B, Moore JW, Anderson E, Bradley R, Kusack K, Minear JT, Murphy D, Standen S, Viner N, Willis M, Chartrand S, Dingle L, Hawkshaw MA, Larsen I, LePage S, Owens GL, Seagren E, Steelquist A: The landslide that blocked salmon migration in the Fraser River, Canada. . In Review [TBD]
  2. Merondun J, Fossøy F, Meshcheryagina S, Atkinson P, Bachurin G, Bulyuk V, Fenchuk V, Golovatin M, Hewson C, Honza M, Markovets M, Moskát C, Owens GL, Procházka P, Red'kin Y, Rutila J, Šulc M, Thorup K, Stokke BG, Liang W, Wolf JBW: Maternally inherited genes enable host-switching without speciation in the common cuckoo. . In Review [TBD]
  3. Schluter D, Veen T, Thompson K, Owens GL, Rennison DJ: Sympatric coexistence with gene flow before speciation has completed. Molecular Ecology. In Review [TBD]
  4. Barry P, Howe N, Owens GL, Baetscher D, D'Amelio K, Vulstek S, Russell J, Lee E, Barclay A, Gharrett A, Tallmon DA, Larson W: A diversification of large-effect loci in a duplicated genomic region leads to complex phenotypes. BioRxiv [TBD]

    5. 2025

  5. De-Kayne R, Li S, Escalona M, Lou RN, Owens GL, Kolora SRR, Jainese C, Seeto K, McCrea M, Nguyen O, Chumchim N, Sahasrabudhe RM, Fairbairn CW, Green RE, Seligmann WE, Love M, Sudmant PH: A haplotype-resolved genome assembly of the bocaccio rockfish, Sebastes paucispinis. Journal of Heredity. 2025 [TBD]
  6. Dykman LN, Clay S, Bemmels JB, Melchers GK, Timmer BD, Owens GL, Neufeld CJ, Baum JK: Testing the roles of local adaptation and genetic diversity to improve giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) restoration. Restoration Ecology. 2025 [TBD]
  7. Owens GL, Caseys C, Mitchell N, Hubner S, Whitney KD, Rieseberg LH: Shared selection and genetic architecture drive strikingly repeatable evolution in long-term experimental hybrid populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2025 [PDF]
  8. Bemmels JB, Starko S, Weigel BL, Hirabayashi K, Pinch A, Elphinstone C, Dethier MN, Rieseberg LH, Page JE, Neufeld CJ, Owens GL: Population genomics reveals strong impacts of genetic drift without purging and guides conservation of bull and giant kelp. Current Biology. 2025 [PDF]
  9. Owens GL, Cai Z, Bercovich N, Todesco M, Lee-Yaw JA, Rieseberg LH: A trans-species cytoplasmic polymorphism is associated with seed shape and aridity across multiple species of sunflowers. Proceedings of National Academy of Science USA. 2025 [TBD]

    10. 2024

  10. Huang K, Ostevik KL, Jahani M, Todesco M, Bercovich N, Andrew RL, Owens GL, Rieseberg LH: Inversions contribute disproportionately to parallel genomic divergence in dune sunflowers. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2024 [PDF]
  11. Zhou Z, Owens GL, Larson WA, Lou RN, Sudmant PH: loco-pipe: an automated pipeline for population genomics with low-coverage whole-genome sequencing. Bioinformatics. 2024 [PDF]
  12. Fernandez-Melerom B, del Moral L, Todesco M, Rieseberg LH, Owens GL, Carrere S, Chabaud M, Munos S, Velasco L, Perez-Vich B: Development and characterization of a new sunflower source of resistance to race G of Orobanche cumana Wallr. derived from Helianthus anomalus. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 2024 [PDF]
  13. Hirabayashi K, Debnath SC, Owens GL: Unveiling the evolutionary history of lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) through genome sequencing and assembly of European and North American subspecies. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 2024 [PDF]

    14. 2023

  14. Soudi S, Jahani M, Todesco M, Owens GL, Bercovich N, Rieseberg LH, Yeaman S: Repeatability of adaptation in sunflowers: genomic regions harbouring inversions also drive adaptation in species lacking an inversion. eLife. 2023 [PDF]
  15. Bock DG, Cai Z, Elphinstone C, Gonzalez-Segovia E, Hirabayashi K, Huang K, Keais GL, Kim A, Owens GL, Rieseberg LH: Genomics of plant speciation. Plant Communication. 2023 [PDF]
  16. Sykes NTB, Kolora SRR, Sudmant PH, Owens GL: Rapid turnover and evolution of sex‐determining regions in Sebastes rockfishes. Molecular Ecology. 2023 [PDF]
  17. Owens GL, Todesco M, Huang K, Rieseberg LH: Re-evaluating homoploid reticulate evolution in the Helianthus sunflowers. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2023 [PDF]
  18. Hirabayashi K, Owens GL: The rate of inversion fixation in plant genomes is highly variable. Evolution. 2023 [PDF]
  19. Huang K, Jahani M, Gouzy J, Legendre A, Carrere S, Lázaro-Guevara JM, González Segovia EG, Todesco M, Mayjonade B, Rodde N, Cauet S, Dufau I, Staton SE, Pouilly N, Boniface MC, Tapy C, Mangin B, Duhnen A, Gautier V, Poncet C, Donnadieu C, Mandel T, Hübner S, Burke JM, Vautrin S, Bellec A, Owens GL, Langlade N, Muños S, Rieseberg LH: The genomics of linkage drag in sunflower. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2023 [PDF]

    20. 2022

  20. Bercovich N, Genze N, Todesco M, Owens GL, Legare J-S, Huang K, Rieseberg LH, Grimm DG: HeliantHOME, a public and centralized database of phenotypic sunflower data. Scientific Data. 2022 [PDF]
  21. Edger PP, Iorizzo M, Bassil NV, Benevenuto J, Ferrão LFV, Giongo L, Hummer K, Lawas LMF, Leisner CP, Li C, Munoz PR, Ashrafi H, Atucha A, Babiker EM, Canales E, Chagné D, DeVetter L, Ehlenfeldt M, Espley RV, Gallardo K, Günther CS, Hardigan M, Hulse-Kemp AM, Jacobs M, Lila MA, Luby C, Main D, Mengist MF, Owens GL, Perkins-Veazie P, Polashock J, Pottorff M, Rowland LJ, Sims CA, Song G, Spencer J, Vorsa N, Yocca AE, Zalapa J: There and back again; historical perspective and future directions for Vaccinium breeding and research studies. Horticultural Research. 2022 [PDF]
  22. Huang K, Ostevik KL, Elphinstone C, Todesco M, Bercovich N, Owens GL, Rieseberg LH: Mutation load in sunflower inversions is negatively correlated with inversion heterozygosity. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2022 [PDF]
  23. Mitchell N, Luu H, Owens GL, Rieseberg LH, Whitney KD: Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers (Helianthus). Evolution. 2022 [PDF]
  24. Bieker VC, Battlay P, Petersen B, Sun X, Wilson J, Brealey JC, Bretagnolle F, Nurkowski K, Lee C, Brunier M, Barreiro FS, Roy Y, Owens GL, Forcioli L, Lee JY, Kellner FL, Boheeman LV, Gopalakrishnan S, Gaudeul M, Mueller-Schaerer H, Lommen S, Karrer G, Chauvel B, Kostantinovic B, Sun Y, Dalén L, Poczai P, Rieseberg LH, Gilbert MTP, Hodgins KA, Martin MD: Uncovering the hologenomic basis of an extraordinary plant invasion. Science Advances. 2022 [PDF]
  25. Lee JS, Jahani M, Huang K, Mandel JR, Marek LF, Burke JM, Langlade NB, Owens GL, Rieseberg LH: Expression complementation of gene presence/absence polymorphisms in hybrids contributes importantly to heterosis in sunflower. Journal of Advanced Research. 2022 [PDF]
  26. Todesco M, Bercovich N, Kim A, Imerovski I, Owens GL, Ruiz OD, Holalu SV, Madilao LL, Jahani M, Légaré JS, Blackman BK, Rieseberg LH: Genetic basis and dual adaptive role of floral pigmentation in sunflowers. eLife. 2022 [PDF]

    27. 2021

  27. Kolora SRR*, Owens GL*, Vasquez JM, Stubbs A, Chatla K, Jainese C, Seeto K, McCrea M, Sandel MW, Vianna JA, Maslenikov K, Bachtrog D, Orr JW, Love M, Sudmant PH: Origins and evolution of extreme lifespan in the adaptive radiation of Pacific rockfishes. Science 2021 [PDF](Highlighted on journal cover)
  28. Owens GL, Todesco M, Bercovich N, Legare JS, Mitchell N, Whitney KD, Rieseberg LH: Standing variation rather than recent adaptive introgression likely underlies differentiation of the texanus subspecies of Helianthus annuus. Molecular Ecology 2021 [PDF]
  29. Owens GL: Common gardens to candidate genes: an elegant case of homoploid hybrid speciation. Molecular Plant 2020 [PDF]

    30. 2020

  30. Huang K, Andrew RL, Owens GL, Ostevik KL, Rieseberg LH: Multiple chromosomal inversions contribute to adaptive divergence of a dune sunflower ecotype. Molecular Ecology 2020 [PDF](Highlighted on journal cover)
  31. Todesco M*, Owens GL*, Bercovich N*, Légaré JS, Soudi S, Burge DO, Huang K, Ostevik KL, Drummond EBM, Imerovski I, Lande K, Pascual MA, Cheung W, Staton SE, Muños S, Nielsen R, Donovan LA, Burke JM, Yeaman S, Rieseberg LH: Massive haplotypes underlie ecotypic differentiation in sunflowers. Nature 2020 (Co-first authors) [PDF]
  32. Rennison DJ, Delmore KE, Samuk K, Owens GL, Miller SE: Parallel selection and geographic proximity predict shared patterns of genome-wide differentiation after colonization of novel environments. American Naturalist 2020 [PDF]
  33. Owens GL, Samuk K: Adaptive introgression during environmental change can weaken reproductive isolation. Nature Climate Change 2020 10: 58-62 [PDF] (Faculty of 1000 selection)

    34. 2019

  34. Rojas-Barrera IC, Wegier A, Sánchez-González JJ, Owens GL, Rieseberg LH, Pinero D: Contemporary evolution of maize landraces and their wild relatives influenced by gene flow with modern maize varieties. PNAS 2019 116: 21302-21311 [PDF]
  35. Mitchell N, Owens GL, Hovick SM, Rieseberg LH, Whitney KD: Hybridization speeds adaptive evolution in an eight-year field experiment. Scientific Reports 2019 9: 1-12 [PDF]
  36. Imerovski I, Dedić B, Cvejić S, Miladinović D, Jocić S, Owens GL, Tubić NK, Rieseberg LH: BSA-seq mapping reveals major QTL for broomrape resistance in four sunflower lines. Molecular Breeding 2019 39: 41[PDF]
  37. Hübner S, Bercovich N, Todesco M, Mandel JR, Odenheimer J, Ziegler JE, Baute GJ, Owens GL, Grassa CJ, Ebert DP, Ostevik K, Moyers BT, Bowers JE, Calic I, Masalia RR, Kane NC, Swanevelder D, Kubach T, Muños S, Langlade NB, Burke JM, Rieseberg LH: Sunflower pan-genome analysis shows that hybridization altered gene content and disease resistance. Nature Plants 2019 5: 54-62[PDF]
  38. Owens GL, Baute GJ, Hübner S, Rieseberg LH: Genomic sequence and copy number evolution during hybrid crop development in sunflowers. Evolutionary Applications 2019 12: 54-65 [PDF]

    39. 2018

  39. Owens GL, Todesco M, Drummond EBM, Yeaman S, Rieseberg LH: A novel post hoc method for detecting index switching finds no evidence for increased switching on the Illumina HiSeq X. Molecular Ecology Resources 2018 18: 169-175 [PDF]
  40. Badouin H, Gouzy J, Grassa CJ, Murat F, Staton E, Cottret L, Lelandais-Brière C, Owens GL... [+53 co-authors] The sunflower genome provides insights into oil metabolism, flowering and Asterid evolution. Nature 2017 546: 148-152 [PDF]

    41. 2017

  41. Mondon A*, Owens GL*, Poverene M, Cantamutto M, Rieseberg LH: Gene flow in Argentinian sunflowers as revealed by genotyping by sequencing data. Evolutionary Applications 2017 11: 193-204 (Co-first authors) [PDF]
  42. Samuk K, Owens GL, Miller SE, Delmore, KE, Rennison DJ, Schluter D: Gene flow and selection interact to promote adaptive divergence in regions of low recombination. Molecular Ecology 2017 26: 4378-4390 [PDF] (Highlighted on journal cover. Faculty of 1000 selection)
  43. Moyers BT*, Owens GL*, Baute GJ, Rieseberg LH: The genetic architecture of UV floral patterning in sunflower. Annals of Botany 2017 mcx038 (Co-first authors) [PDF] (Highlighted on issue cover)
  44. Owens GL, Rennison DJ: Evolutionary ecology of opsin gene sequence, expression and repertoire. Molecular Ecology 2017 26: 1207-1210 [PDF]

    45. 2016

  45. Baute GJ*, Owens GL*, Bock DG, Rieseberg LH: Genome-wide GBS data provide a high-resolution view of wild Helianthus diversity, genetic structure and interspecies gene flow. American Journal of Botany 2016 103 1-8. (Co-first authors) [PDF]
  46. Delmore KE, Toews D, Germain R, Owens GL, Irwin DE: The genetics of seasonal migration and plumage color. Current Biology 2016 26 2167–2173. [PDF]
  47. Rennison DJ, Owens GL, Heckman N, Schluter D, Veen T: Rapid adaptive evolution of colour vision in the threespine stickleback radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2016 283 20160242 [PDF]
  48. Todesco M, Pascual MA, Owens GL, Ostevik KL, Moyers BT, Hübner S, Heredia SM, Hahn MA, Caseys C, Bock DG, Rieseberg LH: Hybridization and extinction. Evolutionary Applications 2016 12367 [PDF]
  49. Irwin DE, Alcaide M, Delmore KE, Irwin JH, Owens GL: Recurrent selection explains genomic regions of high relative but low absolute differentiation in the greenish warbler ring species. Molecular Ecology 2016 25: 4488-4507[PDF]
  50. Owens GL, Baute GJ, Rieseberg LH: Revisiting a classic case of introgression: Hybridization and gene flow in Californian sunflowers. Molecular Ecology 2016 25: 2630-2643 [PDF]

    51. 2014

  51. Renaut S, Owens GL, Rieseberg LH: Shared selective pressure and local genomic landscape lead to repeatable patterns of genomic divergence in sunflowers. Molecular Ecology 2014 23:311-324 [PDF]
  52. Owens GL and Rieseberg LH: Hybrid incompatibility is acquired faster in annual than in perennial species of sunflower and tarweed. Evolution 2014 68:893-900 [PDF] (Faculty of 1000 selection)

    53. 2012

  53. Ostevik K, Moyers BL, Owens GL, Rieseberg LH: Parallel ecological speciation in plants? International Journal of Ecology 2012 [PDF]
  54. Rennison DJ, Owens GL, Taylor JS: Opsin gene duplication and divergence in ray-finned fish. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2012 62: 986-1008 [PDF]
  55. Owens GL, Rennison DJ, Allison WD, Taylor JS: In the four-eyed fish (Anableps anableps), the regions of the retina exposed to aquatic and aerial light do not express the same set of opsin genes. Biology Letters 2012 8:86-89 [PDF]
  56. Rennison DJ, Owens GL, Allison WD, Taylor JS: Intra-retinal variation of opsin gene expression in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Journal of Experimental Biology 2012 214: 3248-3254 [PDF]

    57. 2009

  57. Windsor DJ, Owens GL: The opsin repertoire of Jenynsia onca: a new perspective on gene duplication and divergence in livebearers. BMC Research Notes 2009 2:159 [PDF]
  58. Owens GL, Windsor DJ, Mui J, Taylor JS: A fish eye out of water: ten visual opsins in the four-eyed fish, Anableps anableps. PLoS ONE 2009, 4:e5970 [PDF]

    59. 2008

  59. Ward MN, Churcher AM, Dick KJ, Laver CR, Owens GL, Polack MD, Ward PR, Breden F, Taylor JS: The molecular basis of color vision in colorful fish: four long wave-sensitive (LWS) opsins in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) are defined by amino acid substitutions at key functional sites. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:210 [PDF]