• Publications

    Dellinger, A.S., Maier, L., Smith, S.D., and Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A. In review at American Journal of Botany. Does the abiotic environment influence the distribution of flower and fruit colors? Preprint link

    Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Maier, L., Smith, S.D., and Dellinger, A.S. In review at American Journal of Botany. Flower clades and fruit clades: trade-offs in color diversification across angiosperms.

    2024

    Middleton, R., and Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A. 2024. Structural colour in fruits: biomaterials to inspire physical optics. APL Photonics 9, 081102. link

    Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A. (2024) Invited commentary: Mutualisms evolve in correlation across the plant tree of life. In press at New Phytologist. link

    2023

    Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Middleton, R., Ogawa, Y., Rudall, P., Moyroud, E., Glover, B., Vignolini, S., and Donoghue, M.J. (2023) Multiple origins of lipid-based structural colors contribute to a gradient of fruit color in Viburnum (Adoxaceae). New Phytologist 237(2). link

    2022

    Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Ogawa, Y., van der Kerkhov, G., Vignolini, S., and Smith, S.D. (2022) Convergent evolution of disordered lipidic structural colour in the fruits of Lantana strigocamara (syn. L. camara hybrid cultivar) New Phytologist 235:898-906. link

    Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Deanna, R., Pretz, C.A., Liu, S., Harris, J., Dunbar-Wallis, A., Smith, S.D., Wheeler, L.C. (2022) How to approach the study of syndromes in macroevolution and macroecology. Ecology & Evolution 12(3):e8583. link

    2021

    Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Donoghue, M.J., and Jetz, W. (2021) Dispersers and environment drive global variation in fruit color syndromes. Ecology Letters 24:1387-1399. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13753. link

    2020

    Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Vignolini, S., and Ogawa, Y. (2020) Protocol for extraction and EM visualization of lipids in Viburnum tinus fruit using cryo-ultramicrotomy. STAR Protocols 1, 100201. link

    Middleton*, R., Sinnott-Armstrong*, M.A., Ogawa, Y., Jacucci, G., Moyroud, E., Rudall, P., Prychid, C., Conejero, M., Glover, B., Donoghue, M.J., and Vignolini, S. (2020) Viburnum tinus fruits use lipids to produce metallic blue structural color. Current Biology 30, 1-7, October 5. link

    Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Lee, C., Clement, W., and Donoghue, M.J. (2020) Fruit syndromes in Viburnum: correlated evolution of color, nutritional content, and morphology in bird-dispersed fleshy fruits. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20, 7:1-19. link

    pre-2020

    Park, B., Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Schlutius^, C., Penagos Zuluaga, J.-C., Simpson, R.G., Spriggs, E.L., Benavides, E., Eaton, D.A.R., Landis, M.J., and Donoghue, M.J. (2019) Sterile marginal flowers enhance insect visitation and fruit set in the hobblebush (Viburnum lantanoides) at multiple spatial scales. Annals of Botany 123:381-390. link

    Sinnott-Armstrong, M.A., Downie^, A.E., Federman, S., Valido, A., Jordano, P., and Donoghue, M.J. (2018) Global geographic patterns in the colors and sizes of animal-dispersed fruits. Global Ecology & Biogeography 27:1339-1351. link

    Federman, S., Sinnott-Armstrong, M., Baden, A.L., Chapman, C.A., Daly, D.C., Richard, A.R., Valenta, K., and Donoghue, M.J. (2017) The paucity of frugivores in Madagascar may not be due to unpredictable temperatures or fruit resources. PLoS ONE 12(1):e0168943. link