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Karen Samis

Assistant Professor
Biology
University of Prince Edward Island
Canada

Professor Environmental Sciences
Biography

Dr. Samis did her Phd from Queen's University & works as an Assistant Profrssor in University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her research study involves variation in fitness related genes and functional traits, such as flowering time and stress tolerance, contribute to an individual’s ability to live and reproduce in a given environment.

Research Intrest

Dr. Karen Samis is an evolutionary ecologist interested in the evolutionary, ecological and molecular genetic factors associated with local adaptation in plants. She is particularly interested in the role these factors play in determining the extent and limits to species’ geographical distributions, and uses field biology and molecular genetic tools to ask how variation in habitat, plant and population level dynamics affect the limits to species’ geographical distributions.

List of Publications
Samis KE, Murren CJ, Bossdorf O, Donohue K, Fenster CB, Malmberg RL, Purugganan MD, Stinchcombe JR. Longitudinal trends in climate drive flowering time clines in North American Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecology and Evolution. 2012 Jun 1;2(6):1162-80.
López-Villalobos A, Samis KE, Eckert CG. Microsatellite primers for Camissoniopsis cheiranthifolia (Onagraceae) and cross-amplification in related species.
Hargreaves AL, Samis KE, Eckert CG. Are species’ range limits simply niche limits writ large? A review of transplant experiments beyond the range. The American Naturalist. 2013 Dec 13;183(2):157-73.
Samis KE, López‐Villalobos A, Eckert CG. Strong genetic differentiation but not local adaptation toward the range limit of a coastal dune plant. Evolution. 2016 Nov 1;70(11):2520-36.
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