Department of Botany and Agricultural Biochemistry
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
802-656-9371 (office) 802-453-2856 (home)
email: dstratto@zoo.uvm.edu; fax 802-656-0440
Born: 13 January 1959, Delaware, Ohio, USA
Education:
PhD 1988 State University of New York, Stony Brook
Department of Ecology and Evolution
Dissertation: "Life-cycle components of selection in Erigeron
annuus".
Advisor: Dr. James Thomson
BA 1981 Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
with Honors in Biology and in Philosophy
Professional:
1998- Research Assistant Professor, University of Vermont
1990-98 Assistant Professor, Princeton University
1988-89 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Duke University
Sponsor: Dr. Janis Antonovics
1986-88 Visiting Research Associate, University of California,
Davis
Sponsor: Dr. Maureen Stanton
1984-86 Graduate teaching assistant, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook
1982 National Park Service Southeast Region / University of Georgia.
1981-82 Uplands Research Lab Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Honors, Awards, Fellowships:
1983-85 New York State Graduate Council Fellowship
1981 Clarkson-Graves Graduate Scholarship
1980 Phi Beta Kappa
Grants:
1999 U. S. Department of Agriculture. "Genetic limits to ecological range expansion of cattails".
1999 National Science Foundation. REU supplement award.
1997-99 National Science Foundation "Genetics of Niche Evolution in Arabidopsis"
1994-6 National Science Foundation. REU supplement award.
1993-97 National Science Foundation. "Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of selection in an early successional field: patterns and processes".
1990-91 National Science Foundation. "Spatial analysis of selection and environmental heterogeneity in plant populations".
1987 Sigma Xi, Graduate Student Travel Award
1986-88 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. "Components of selection in Erigeron annuus, an obligate apomict".
1986 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research. "Geographic variation in an asexual plant, Erigeron annuus".
1985 Sigma Xi Grant-in Aid of Research. "Life-cycle components of selection in Erigeron annuus".
1984 Jesse-Smith Noyes Foundation. "Ecological determinants
of flower longevity".
Grants with Students:
1997 National Science Foundation. Dissertation research: Evolution of serpentine tolerance in Platystemon californicus (for Todd Vision)
1996 National Science Foundation. Dissertation research: The evolution of autogamy in Arenaria uniflora (for Lila Fishman).
1995 National Science Foundation. Dissertation research: Snow-melt gradients and the distribution of Potentilla species (for Kristina Stinson).
1991 National Science Foundation. Dissertation research: The adaptive
significance of andromonoecy in Zigadenus lillies (for
Simon Emms)
Publications:
1998 Stratton, D. A. Reaction norm functions and QTL-environment interactions for flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana.. Heredity 81:144-155
1998 Stratton, D. A. and C. C. Bennington. Spatial and temporal variation in selection are too fine-grained to maintain genetic variation in Erigeron annuus. Evolution 52:678-691
1998 Bennington, C. C. and D. A. Stratton. Field tests of density- and frequency-dependent selection in Erigeron annuus. Am. Journal of Botany. 85:540-545.
1997 Emms, S. K, D. A. Stratton and A. A. Snow. The effect of inflorescence size on male fitness: experimental tests in the andromonoecious lily Zigadenus paniculatus. Evolution 51: 1481-1489
1996 Stratton, D. A. and C. C. Bennington. Measuring spatial variation in fitness of Arabidopsis thaliana using randomly sown seeds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 9:215-228.
1996 Antonovics, J., D. A. Stratton, P. H. Thrall and A. M. Jarosz. An anther-smut disease (Ustilago violacea) of fire-pink (Silene virginica): its biology and relationship to the anther-smut disease of white campion (Silene alba). American Midland Naturalist 135: 130-143.
1995 Stratton, D. A. Spatial scale of variation in fitness of Erigeron annuus. American Naturalist 146:608-624.
1994 Stratton, D. A. Genotype-environment interactions for fitness of Erigeron annuus show fine-grained heterogeneity of selection. Evolution 48:1607-1618.
1994 Morris, W. F., M. V. Price, N. M. Waser, J. D. Thomson, B. Thomson, and D. A. Stratton. Systematic increase in pollen carryover and its consequences for geitonogamy in plant populations. Oikos 71:431-440.
1994 Antonovics, J., P. Thrall, A. Jarosz, and D. Stratton. Ecological genetics of metapopulations: the Silene-Ustilago plant pathogen system. in L. Real, ed. Ecological Genetics. pp 146-170.
1992 Stratton, D. A. Life cycle components of selection in Erigeron annuus I. Phenotypic selection. Evolution 46: 92-106.
1992 Stratton, D. A. Life cycle components of selection in Erigeron annuus II. Genetic variation. Evolution 46: 107-120.
1991 Stratton, D. A. Genetics of life history variation in an asexual plant, Erigeron annuus. Am. J. Bot. 78:723-728.
1989 Stratton, D. A. Competition prolongs expression of maternal effects in seedlings of Erigeron annuus. Am. J. Bot 76:1646-1653
1989 Stratton, D. A. Longevity of individual flowers in a Costa Rican cloud forest: ecological correlates and phylogenetic constraints. Biotropica 21:308-318
1986 Thomson, J. D., M. V. Price, N. M. Waser, and D. A. Stratton. Comparative studies of pollen and fluorescent dye transport by bumble bees visiting Erythronium grandiflorum. Oecologia 69:567-570.
1985 Thomson, J. D. and D. A. Stratton. Floral morphology and
cross-pollination in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae).
American Journal of Botany 72:433-437.
Invited Seminars:
Florida State University, University of Kentucky, Princeton University
(Statistics), Rutgers University, SUNY Stony Brook, Michigan State
University, University of Rochester, University of Maryland, Washington
State University, Brown University, University of Pittsburg, Louisiana
State University, University of Kentucky, University of Vermont,
Simon Fraser University, University of Nevada, Middlebury College
Contributed Papers:
Society for the Study of Evolution 1986-88, 1990-91, 1993-1995, 1997, 1999
Ecological Society of America 1982, 1988, 1996
Botanical Society of America 1985, 1987
Mycological Society of America 1990
International Society of Behavioral Ecology 1992
Professional Service:
Reviewer for Evolution, Ecology, American Naturalist, American Journal of Botany, Journal of Ecology, Acta Oecologia, Botanical Gazette, National Science Foundation
NSF ad hoc panel member for doctoral dissertation improvement
grants (1991, 1992)
University and Departmental Service (at Princeton):
Departmental Representative (Director of Undergraduate Studies) 1991-1993
Committee on Course of Study, Committee on Committees
Undergraduate Advisor, Butler College
Post-doctoral associates:
Cynthia Bennington 1994-1996
Graduate Students:
Simon Emms PhD 1993 Adaptive significance of andromonoecy in Zigadenus lilies.
Karen Masters PhD 1997 Behavioral and ecological aspects of inbreeding in natural animal populations: inferences from Umbonia treehoppers (Homoptera: Membracidae).
Kristina Stinson PhD 1998 Snow melt gradients and the distribution of Potentilla species.
Lila Fishman PhD 1998 Mating system evolution in Arenaria uniflora.
Todd Vision PhD 1998 Evolution of serpentine tolerance in Platystemon
californicus.
Professional Affiliations:
Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, Botanical Society of America, Sigma Xi