Reviewer for 28 Journals, Publishers, or Funding Agencies:
Annales Zoologici Fennici, BMC Biology, BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Research Notes, Biology Letters, Bulletin of Insectology, Conservation Biology, Conservation Genetics, FEBS, European Journal of Entomology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Applied Entomology, Journal of Biogeography, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, National Science Foundation (NSF, USA), National Environmental Research Council (NERC, UK), Oxford University Press, Plos Genetics, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Systematic Entomology, Southeastern Naturalist, Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Publications
2012
Wheat, C. W. and N. Wahlberg (2012) Phylogenomic Insights into the Cambrian Explosion, the Colonization of Land and the Evolution of Flight in Arthropoda. Systematic Biology, 62:93-109.
Kvist, J.*, C. W. Wheat*, E. Kallioniemi, M. Saastamoinen, I. A. Hanski and M. J. Frilander (2012) Temperature treatments during larval development reveal extensive heritable and plastic variation in gene expression and life history traits. Molecular Ecology, 22:602-619. * shared first authorship
Hornett, E. A. and C. W. Wheat (2012) Quantitative RNA-Seq analysis in non-model species: assessing transcriptome assemblies as a scaffold and the utility of evolutionary divergent genomic reference species. BMC Genomics. 13:361.
V. Todisco, P. Gratton, E. V. Zakharov, C. W. Wheat, V. Sbordoniand F. A. H. Sperling (2012) Mitochondrial phylogeography of the Holarctic Parnassius phoebus complex supports a recent refugial model for alpine butterflies. Journal of Biogeography, 39: 1058–1072.
2011
Wheat, C. W. (2011) SNP discovery using 454 next generation sequencing in A. Bonin and F. Pompanon, eds. Population Genomics: Methods and Protocols, in the series Methods in Molecular Biology, Humana Press, USA. In press.
Wheat, C. W. (2011) Dispersal genetics: emerging insights from fruitflies and butterfies in J. Clobert, M. Baguette, T. Benton, and J. Bullock, eds. Informed dispersal and spatial evolutionary ecology. Oxford University Press.
Feldmeyer, B., C. W. Wheat, N. Krezdorn, B. Rotter and M. Pfenninger (2011) Short read Illumina data for the de novo assembly of a non-model snail species transcriptome (Radix balthica, Basommatophora, Pulmonata), and a comparison of assembler performance. BMC Genomics, 12:317.
Wheat, C. W., and H. Vogel (2011) Transcriptome sequencing goals, assembly and assessment in V. Orgogozo, and M. V. Rockman, eds. Molecular methods for evolutionary genetics. Humana Press, New York.
Vogel, H. and C. W. Wheat (2011) Accessing the transcriptome: how to normalize mRNA pools. in V. Orgogozo, and M. V. Rockman, eds. Molecular methods for evolutionary genetics. Humana Press, New York.
C. W. Wheat, H. W. Fescemyer, J. Kvist, E. Tas, J. C. Vera, Mikko J. Frilander,I. Hanski, J. H. Marden (2011) Functional genomics of life history variation in a butterfly metapopulation. Molecular Ecology20: 1813–1828.
2010
C. W. Wheat (2010) Let’s Move Toward Genomics for Butterfly Ecology and Insect Conservation (invited article). Conservation Biology 25: 203-205. PDF.
Storz, J. and C. W. Wheat. Integrating evolutionary and functional approaches to infer adaptation at specific loci. Evolution, 64: 2489-2509. PDF.
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 Evolution27:267-281. 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
Fischer, H. M., C. W. Wheat, D. G. Heckel and H. Vogel 2008 Evolutionary origins of a novel host plant detoxification gene in butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25(5):809-820. 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.
