Education

B.S., Biology, Emory University, USA

Ph.D., Biology, Stanford University, USA

Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany

Postdoc, Collaboration between Penn State University, USA & University of Helsinki, Finland

Associate Editor for:

BMC Genomics

Reviewer for:

BMC Biology, BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, Biology Letters, FEBS, European Journal of Entomology, Journal of Applied Entomology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Publications

2010

Storz, J. and C. W. Wheat. Integrating evolutionary and functional approaches to infer adaptation at specific loci. Evolution (in press). PDF proof.

Fischer, H. M, H. Vogel, D. G. Heckel, and C. W. Wheat. Microevolutionary dynamics of a macroevolutionary key innovation in a Lepidopteran herbivore. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:60. PDF.

Schranz, M. E., P. P. Edger, J. C. Pires, N. M. van Dam, and C. W. Wheat. Comparative Genomics in the Brassicales: Ancient Genome Duplications, Glucosinolate Diversification and Pierinae Herbivore Radiation (invited article in review) in ‘Brassica oilseeds’ in the series ‘Genetic, Genomics and Breeding in Crop Plants’ Eds. David Edwards, Isobel Parkin and Jacqueline Batley. Series editor: Prof. Chittaranjan Kole

2009

Wheat, C. W. (2009) Phosphoglucose isomerase (Pgi) performance and fitness effects among Arthropods and its potential role as an adaptive marker in conservation genetics. Conservation Genetics 11:387 - 397. PDF.

Wheat, C. W., C. R. Haag, J. H. Marden, I. Hanski, M. J. Frilander (2009) Evidence for balancing selection at a candidate gene (Pgi) influencing ecological dynamics in a butterfly metapopulation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:267-281. PDF

Orsini, L., C. W. Wheat, C. R. Haag, J. Kvist, M. J. Frilander, and I. Hanski (2009) Fitness differences associated with Pgi SNP genotypes in the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 367 - 375. PDF

2008

Vera*, C., C. W. Wheat*, H. W. Fescemyer, M. J. Frilander, D. L. Crawford, I. Hanski, and J. H. Marden 2008 Rapid transcriptome characterization for a non-model organism using massively parallel 454 pyrosequencing. Molecular Ecology 16(11): 2371 PDF ; Supplemental Material

*shared first authorship

Wheat, C.W., and Watt, W.B. 2008. A mitochondrial-DNA-based phylogeny for some evolutionary-genetic model species of Colias butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(3):893-902. PDF ; Supplemental Material

Wahlberg, N. and C. W. Wheat 2008. Genomic outposts serve the phylogenomic pioneers: designing novel nuclear markers for genomic dna extractions of Lepidoptera. Systematic Biology 57(2):231-42. PDF ; Supplemental Material

Wheat, C. W. 2008 Rapidly developing functional genomics in ecological model systems via 454 transcriptome sequencing. Genetica 138: 433 - 451. PDF .

2007

Wheat, C. W., H. Vogel, U. Wittstock, M. F. Braby, D. Underwood, and T. Mitchell-Olds 2007 The genetic basis of a coevolutionary key innovation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(51):20427-20431. 2371 PDF . Supplemental Material

Freitak, D., C. W. Wheat, D. G. Heckel and H. Vogel 2007 Immune system responses and fitness costs associated with the consumption of bacteria in larvae of Trichoplusia ni. BMC Biology 5:56 (doi:10.1186/1741-7007-5-56) PDF

Girard, P. A., Y. Boublik, C. W. Wheat, A. N. Volkoff, F. Cousserans, M. Brehelin, and J-M. Escoubas 2007 X-tox: An atypical defensin derived family of immune-related proteins specific to Lepidoptera. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 32(5):575-584. PDF

2006

Wheat, C. W., W. B. Watt, D. D. Pollock and P. M. Schulte 2006 From DNA to fitness differences: Sequences and structures of adaptive variants of Colias phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI). Molecular Biology and Evolution 23: 499-512. PDF

2005

Wheat, C. W., W. B. Watt and C. L. Boutwell 2005 A reconnaissance of population genetic variation in arctic and subarctic sulfur butterflies (Colias spp.; Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 83: 1614-1623. PDF

2003

Watt, W. B., C. W. Wheat, E. H. Meyer and J. F. Martin 2003 Adaptation at specific loci. VII. Natural selection, dispersal and the diversity of molecular-functional variation patterns among butterfly species complexes (Colias: Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Molecular Ecology 12: 1265-1275. PDF

1996

Wise, M. G., McArthur, J. V., Wheat, C. W., L. J. Shimkets (1996) Temporal variation in genetic diversity and structure of a lotic population of Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) cepacia. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62(5):1558-1562.