Here is a list of my publications, which can also be found on my Google Scholar and OrcID pages. If you are unable to access a publication for any reason and would like to request a copy, please contact me directly at lucas.wheeler@colorado.edu. * indicates corresponding authorship.
Research and review articles
2024
Pezzi PH, Wheeler LC, Brandão de Freitas L, Smith SD (2024). Incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization as drivers of tree discordance in Petunia and related genera (Petunieae, Solanaceae). EcoEvoRxiv
2023
Stevens JTE, Wheeler LC, Williams NH, Norton AM, Wessinger CA (2023). Predictive links between petal color and pigment quantities in natural Penstemon hybrids. Integrative and Comparative Biology (A version of this article is also available at bioRxiv)
Wheeler LC*, Dunbar-Wallis A, Schutz K, Smith SD (2023). Evolutionary walks through flower color space driven by gene expression in Petunia and allies (Petunieae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (A version of this article is also available atEcoEvoRxiv)
2022
Wheeler LC*, Walker JF, Ng J, Deanna R, Dunbar-Wallis A, Backes A, Pezzi PH, Virginia Palchetti M, Holly M Robertson, Monaghan A, Brandão de Freitas L, Barboza GE, Moyroud E, Smith SD (2022). Transcription factors evolve faster than their structural gene targets in the flavonoid pigment pathway. Molecular Biology and Evolution (A version of this article is also available at EcoEvoRxiv)
Sinnott-Armstrong M, Deanna R, Pretz C, Harris J, Dunbar-Wallis A, Liu S, Smith SD, Wheeler LC* (2022). How to approach the study of syndromes in macroevolution and ecology. Ecology and Evolution (A version of this article is also available at EcoEvoRxiv)
2021
Huffine CA, Wheeler LC, Wing BA, Cameron JC (2021). Computational modeling and evolutionary implications of biochemical reactions in bacterial microcompartments. Current Opinion in Microbiology (A version of this article is also available at EcoEvoRxiv)
Wheeler LC, Harms MJ (2021). Were ancestral proteins less specific? Molecular Biology and Evolution (A version of this article is also available at bioRxiv)
2020
Wheeler LC*, Wing BA, Smith SD (2020). Structure and contingency determine mutational hotspots for flower color evolution. Evolution Letters (a version of this article is also available on bioRxiv)
Wheeler LC, Perkins A, Wong CE, Harms MJ (2020). Learning Peptide Recognition Rules for a Low-Specificity Protein. Protein Science (A version of this article is also available at bioRxiv)
2019
Wheeler LC*, Smith SD (2019). Computational modeling of anthocyanin pathway evolution: Biases, hotspots, and trade-offs. Integrative and Comparative Biology (A version of this article is also available at bioRxiv)
2018
Duvvuri H, Wheeler LC, Harms MJ (2018). pytc: open source python software for global analyses of isothermal titration calorimetry data. Biochemistry (A version of this article is also available at bioRxiv)
Wheeler LC, Anderson JA, Morrison AJ, Wong CE, Harms MJ (2018). Conservation of specificity in two low-specificity proteins. Biochemistry (a version of this article is also available at bioRxiv)
2017
Wheeler LC, Harms MJ (2017). S100A5 binds Ca2+ and Cu2+ independently. BMC Biophysics
2016
Wheeler LC, Donor MT, Prell JS, Harms MJ (2016). Multiple Evolutionary Origins of Ubiquitous Cu 2+ and Zn 2+ Binding in the S100 protein Family. PLoS ONE
Wheeler LC, An-Lim S, Marqusee S, Harms MJ (2016). The thermostability and specificity of ancient proteins. Current Opinions in Structural Biology (LCW and SAL contributed equally to the work)
Doctoral dissertation
Wheeler LC (2017). Evolution of Metal and Peptide Binding in the S100 Protein Family. ProQuest, GitHub.