UMass Boston

Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Phenotypic Plasticity, Adaptation, Domestication, Botany

PhD, University of British Columbia, Botany (2015)
BA, Reed College, Biology (2007)

• BT Moyers, PL Morrell, JK McKay. 2018. Genetic costs of domestication and improvement. Journal of Heredity 109(2): 103. doi:10.1093/jhered/esx069
• N Price, BT Moyers, L Lopez, JR Lasky, JG Monroe, JL Mullen, CG Oakley, J Lin, J Ågren, DR Schrider, AD Kern, JK McKay. 2018. Combining population genomics and fitness QTLs to identify the genetics of local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana. PNAS 115(19): 5028. doi:10.1073/pnas.1719998115
• BT Moyers*, GL Owens*, GJ Baute, LH Rieseberg. 2017. The genetic architecture of UV floral patterning in sunflower. Annals of Botany 120 (1): 39. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcx038 * co-first authors
• P Tanger, S Klassen, JP Mojica, JT Lovell, BT Moyers, M Baraoidan, MEB Naredo, KL McNally, J Poland, DR Bush, H Leung, JE Leach, JK McKay. 2017. Field-based high throughput phenotyping rapidly identifies genomic regions controlling yield components in rice. Scientific Reports 7: 42839. doi:10.1038/srep42839
• BT Moyers and LH Rieseberg. 2016. Remarkable life history polymorphism may be evolving under divergent selection in the silverleaf sunflower. Molecular Ecology 25: 3817. doi:10.1111/mec.13723

The Moyers Lab studies how and why traits vary within plant species to address real world problems, including food production and species conservation. They integrate approaches from the fields of ecology, physiology, genetics, and evolutionary biology. They work in the field, the greenhouse, the lab, and on high-performing computer clusters.