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University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO, US

2018-01 to present | Postdoctoral researcher (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Oregon: Eugene, OR, US

2012-09 to 2017-12 | PhD Chemistry and Biochemistry (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
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Montana State University Bozeman: Bozeman, MT, US

2009-09 to 2012-05 | B.S. in Chemistry w/ emphasis in biochemistry (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
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Works (17)

Evolutionary walks through flower colour space driven by gene expression in Petunia and allies (Petunieae)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2023-07-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Lucas C. Wheeler; Amy Dunbar-Wallis; Kyle Schutz; Stacey D. Smith
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How to approach the study of syndromes in macroevolution and ecology

Ecology and Evolution
2022-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Miranda A. Sinnott‐Armstrong; Rocio Deanna; Chelsea Pretz; Sukuan Liu; Jesse C. Harris; Amy Dunbar‐Wallis; Stacey D. Smith; Lucas C. Wheeler
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Transcription Factors Evolve Faster Than Their Structural Gene Targets in the Flavonoid Pigment Pathway

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2022-03-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Lucas C Wheeler; Joseph F Walker; Julienne Ng; Rocío Deanna; Amy Dunbar-Wallis; Alice Backes; Pedro H Pezzi; M Virginia Palchetti; Holly M Robertson; Andrew Monaghan et al.
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Computational modeling and evolutionary implications of biochemical reactions in bacterial microcompartments

Current Opinion in Microbiology
2022-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Clair A Huffine; Lucas C Wheeler; Boswell Wing; Jeffrey C Cameron
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Transcription factors evolve faster than their structural gene targets in the flavonoid pigment pathway

2021-10-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Lucas Wheeler; Joseph Walker; Julienne Ng; Rocio Deanna; Amy Dunbar-Wallis; Alice Backes; Pedro Pezzi; M. Palchetti; Andrew Monaghan; Loreta de Freitas
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Computational Modeling and Evolutionary Implications of Biochemical Reactions in Bacterial Microcompartments

2021-09-23 | Preprint
Contributors: Clair Huffine; Lucas Wheeler; Boswell Wing; Jeffrey Cameron
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How to approach the study of syndromes in macroevolution and ecology

2021-09-01 | Preprint
Contributors: Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong; Rocio Deanna; Chelsea Pretz; Jesse Harris; Amy Dunbar-Wallis; Sukuan Liu; Stacey Smith; Lucas Wheeler
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Structure and contingency determine mutational hotspots for flower color evolution

Evolution Letters
2021-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Lucas C. Wheeler; Boswell A. Wing; Stacey D. Smith
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Structure and contingency determine mutational hotspots for flower color evolution

2020-08-19 | Other
Contributors: Lucas C Wheeler; Boswell A Wing; Stacey D Smith
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Learning Peptide Recognition Rules for a Low-Specificity Protein

2020-06-04 | Other
Contributors: Lucas C. Wheeler; Arden Perkins; Caitlyn E. Wong; Michael J. Harms
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Were ancestral proteins less specific?

2020-05-30 | Preprint
Contributors: Lucas C. Wheeler; Michael J. Harms
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Computational Modeling of Anthocyanin Pathway Evolution: Biases, Hotspots, and Trade-offs

Integrative and Comparative Biology
2019-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1540-7063
Contributors: L C Wheeler; S D Smith
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pytc: Open-Source Python Software for Global Analyses of Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Data

Biochemistry
2018-04-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0006-2960
Contributors: Hiranmayi Duvvuri; Lucas C. Wheeler; Michael J. Harms
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Conservation of Specificity in Two Low-Specificity Proteins

Biochemistry
2017 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0006-2960
Contributors: Lucas C. Wheeler; Jeremy A. Anderson; Anneliese J. Morrison; Caitlyn E. Wong; Michael J. Harms
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Human S100A5 binds Ca2+ and Cu2+ independently

BMC Biophysics
2017-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2046-1682
Contributors: Lucas C. Wheeler; Michael J. Harms
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Multiple Evolutionary Origins of Ubiquitous Cu2+ and Zn2+ Binding in the S100 Protein Family

PLOS ONE
2016-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1932-6203
Contributors: Lucas C. Wheeler; Micah T. Donor; James S. Prell; Michael J. Harms; Eugene A. Permyakov
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The thermostability and specificity of ancient proteins

Current Opinion in Structural Biology
2016-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0959-440X
Contributors: Lucas C Wheeler; Shion A Lim; Susan Marqusee; Michael J Harms
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for eLife (1)