Publications

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Nik Woning, Yazen Al-Salman, Elias Kaiser, Sarah R. Berman, Oliver Brendel, Francisco Javier Cano, Chris Muir, Author 23 of 32 (2026). Revisiting the relationship between stomatal size and speed across species – a meta-analysis. New Phytologist.

Lucas J. Albano, Robin A. Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine G. Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Chris Muir, Seema Nayan Sheth (2026). Rangewide responses to an extreme heat event in Mimulus cardinalis. American Journal of Botany.

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Lucas Gorné, Chris Muir, A Fajardo (2026). Let the concept of trait be functional? Assumptions and inconsistencies in plant functional ecology. Oikos.

Chris Muir (2026). Is photosynthetic capacity associated with diversification of C3 plants?. Ecology Letters.

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Seema Nayan Sheth, Lucas J. Albano, Charles Blanchard, Emily J. Cook, Rosalinda Diaz, Xitlaly Gomez-Vega, Dachuan Wang, Chris Muir, Authors 20, 25 of 25 (2026). Evolutionary responses to historic drought across the range of scarlet monkeyflower. The American Naturalist.

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Congcong Liu, Chris Muir, Lawren Sack, Ying Li, Li Xu, Mingxu Li, Jiahui Zhang, Hugo Jan De Boer, Xingguo Han, Guirui Yu, Nianpeng He (2025). Bounds on stomatal size can explain scaling with stomatal density in forest plants. New Phytologist.

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Chris Muir, Wei Shen Lim, Dachuan Wang (2025). Plasticity and adaptation to high light intensity amplify the advantage of amphistomatous leaves. Preprint.

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Balzhan Askanbayeva, Jitka Janová, Jiří Kubásek, Viktoria v Zeisler-Diehl, Lukas Schreiber, Chris Muir, Jiří Šantrůček (2024). Amphistomy: stomata patterning inferred from 13C content and leaf-side-specific deposition of epicuticular wax. Annals of Botany.

Jacob Watts, Graham J. Dow, Thomas N. Buckley, Chris Muir (2024). Does stomatal patterning in amphistomatous leaves minimize the CO2 diffusion path length within leaves?. AoB PLANTS.

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Genevieve Triplett, Thomas N. Buckley, Chris Muir (2024). Amphistomy increases leaf photosynthesis more in coastal than montane plants of Hawaiian ʻilima (Sida fallax). American Journal of Botany.

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Chris Muir, Miquel Àngel Conesa, Jeroni Galmés, Varsha S. Pathare, Patricia Rivera, Rosana López Rodríguez, Teresa Terrazas, Dongliang Xiong (2023). How important are functional and developmental constraints on phenotypic evolution? An empirical test with the stomatal anatomy of flowering plants. The American Naturalist.

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Chris Muir (2023). Technical comment on 'Negative-assortative mating for color in wolves'. Evolution.

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Chris Muir, Courtney L. Van Den Elzen, Amy L. Angert (2022). Selection on early survival does not explain germination rate clines in Mimulus cardinalis. American Journal of Botany.

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Lucas D Gorné, Sandra Díaz, Vanessa Minden, Yusuke Onoda, Koen Kramer, Chris Muir, Author 6 of 13 (2022). The acquisitive–conservative axis of leaf trait variation emerges even in homogeneous environments. Annals of Botany.

Kacie T. Kajihara, Cameron P. Egan, Sean O. I. Swift, Christopher B. Wall, Chris Muir, Nicole A. Hynson (2022). Core arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are predicted by their high abundance–occupancy relationship while host‐specific taxa are rare and geographically structured. New Phytologist.

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Jospeh R. Stinziano, Cassaundra Roback, Demi Sargent, Bridget K. Murphy, Patrick J. Hudson, Chris Muir (2021). Principles of resilient coding for plant ecophysiologists. AoB PLANTS.

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Cameron P. Egan, Jerry H. Koko, Chris Muir, Geoffrey Zahn, Sean O.I. Swift, Anthony S. Amend, Nicole A. Hynson (2021). Restoration of the mycobiome of the endangered Hawaiian mint Phyllostegia kaalaensis increases its resistance to a common powdery mildew. Fungal Ecology.

Barbara M. Neto-Bradley, Chris Muir, Jeannette Whitton, Matthew W. Pennell (2021). Phylogenetic history of vascular plant metabolism revealed using a macroevolutionary common garden. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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Megan Bontrager, Takuji Usui, Julie A. Lee-Yaw, Daniel N. Anstett, Haley A. Branch, Anna L. Hargreaves, Chris Muir, Amy L. Angert (2021). Adaptation across geographic ranges is consistent with strong selection in marginal climates and legacies of range expansion. Evolution.

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Thomas C. Nelson, Chris Muir, Angela M. Stathos, Daniel D. Vanderpool, Kayli Anderson, Amy L. Angert, Lila Fishman (2021). Quantitative trait locus mapping reveals an independent genetic basis for joint divergence in leaf function, life‐history, and floral traits between scarlet monkeyflower (Mimulus cardinalis) populations. American Journal of Botany.

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Andrew D. Richardson, Donald M. Aubrecht, David Basler, Koen Hufkens, Chris Muir, Leonard Hanssen (2021). Developmental changes in the reflectance spectra of temperate deciduous tree leaves and implications for thermal emissivity and leaf temperature. New Phytologist.

Megan Bontrager, Christopher David Muir, Colin Mahony, Devin E Gamble, Rachel M Germain, Anna L Hargreaves, Elizabeth J Kleynhans, Ken a Thompson, Amy L Angert (2020). Climate warming weakens local adaptation. Preprint.

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Chris Muir (2020). A Stomatal Model of Anatomical Tradeoffs Between Gas Exchange and Pathogen Colonization. Frontiers in Plant Science.

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Jens Kattge, Gerhard Bönisch, Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel, Iain Colin Prentice, Paul Leadley, Chris Muir, Author 449 of 729 (2020). TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology.

Chris Muir (2019). tealeaves: an R package for modelling leaf temperature using energy budgets. AoB PLANTS.

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Chris Muir (2019). Is amphistomy an adaptation to high light? Optimality models of stomatal traits along light gradients. Integrative and Comparative Biology.

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David B. Lowry, James M. Sobel, Amy L. Angert, Tia‐Lynn Ashman, Robert L. Baker, Benjamin K. Blackman, Chris Muir, Author 23 of 38 (2019). The case for the continued use of the genus name Mimulus for all monkeyflowers. Taxon.

Miquel À Conesa, Christopher D Muir, Arantzazu Molins, Jeroni Galmés (2019). Stomatal anatomy coordinates leaf size with Rubisco kinetics in the Balearic Limonium. AoB PLANTS.

Megan Bontrager, Chris Muir, Amy L. Angert (2019). Geographic variation in reproductive assurance of Clarkia pulchella. Oecologia.

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Chris Muir (2018). Light and growth form interact to shape stomatal ratio among British angiosperms. New Phytologist.

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Chris Muir, Amy L. Angert (2017). Grow with the flow: faster growth is associated with more variable precipitation in a perennial herb. Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

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Miquel À. Conesa, Chris Muir, Emilio J. Roldán, Arántzazu Molins, J. Alejandro Perdomo, Jeroni Galmés (2017). Growth capacity in wild tomatoes and relatives correlates with original climate in arid and semi-arid species. Environmental and Experimental Botany.

Rafael F. Guerrero, Chris Muir, Sarah Josway, Leonie C. Moyle (2017). Pervasive antagonistic interactions among hybrid incompatibility loci. PLOS Genetics.

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Chris Muir, Miquel À. Conesa, Emilio J. Roldán, Arántzazu Molins, Jeroni Galmés (2017). Weak coordination between leaf structure and function among closely related tomato species. New Phytologist.

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Chris Muir, Meret Thomas-Huebner (2015). Constraint around Quarter-Power Allometric Scaling in Wild Tomatoes ( Solanum sect. Lycopersicon ; Solanaceae). The American Naturalist.

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Chris Muir (2015). Making pore choices: repeated regime shifts in stomatal ratio. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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Chris Muir, Matthew W. Hahn (2015). The limited contribution of reciprocal gene loss to increased speciation rates following whole-genome duplication. The American Naturalist.

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Chris Muir, James B. Pease, Leonie C. Moyle (2014). Quantitative Genetic Analysis Indicates Natural Selection on Leaf Phenotypes Across Wild Tomato Species (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon ; Solanaceae). Genetics.

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Chris Muir, Roger P. Hangarter, Leonie C. Moyle, Phillip A. Davis (2014). Morphological and anatomical determinants of mesophyll conductance in wild relatives of tomato (Solanum sect. Lycopersicon, sect. Lycopersicoides; Solanaceae). Plant, Cell & Environment.

Chris Muir (2013). How Did the Swiss Cheese Plant Get Its Holes?. The American Naturalist.

Matthew W. Hahn, Bradley J. White, Chris Muir, Nora J. Besansky (2012). No evidence for biased co-transmission of speciation islands in Anopheles gambiae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Leonie C. Moyle, Chris Muir (2010). Reciprocal insights into adaptation from agricultural and evolutionary studies in tomato: Abiotic adaptation in tomato. Evolutionary Applications.

Leonie C. Moyle, Chris Muir, Mira v. Han, Matthew W. Hahn (2010). The contribution of gene movement to the 'two rules of speciation'. Evolution.

Chris Muir, Leonie C. Moyle (2009). Antagonistic epistasis for ecophysiological trait differences between Solanum species. New Phytologist.

Amity M. Wilczek, Judith L. Roe, Mary C. Knapp, Martha D. Cooper, Cristina Lopez-Gallego, Laura J. Martin, Chris Muir, Author 7 of 18 (2009). Effects of Genetic Perturbation on Seasonal Life History Plasticity. Science.