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Recent Publications from the McCauley Lab

McCauley, DE, JR Ellis (2008). Recombination and linkage disequilibrium among mitochondrial genes in structured populations of the gynodioecious plant Silene vulgaris. EVOLUTION, 62(4): 823-832.

Ellis, JR, KE Bentley, DE McCauley (2008). Detection of rare paternal leakage in controlled crosses of the endangered sunflower Helianthus verticillatus. HEREDITY, 100: 574-580.

McCauley DE, Sundby AK, Bailey MF, et al. (2007) Inheritance of chloroplast DNA is not strictly maternal in Silene vulgaris (Caryophyllaceae): Evidence from experimental crosses and natural populations AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 94(8): 1333-1337.

Welch ME, Darnell MZ, McCauley DE (2006) Variable Populations within variable populations: Quantifying mitochondrial heteroplasmy in natural populations of the gynodioecious plant Silene vulgaris GENETICS 174(2):829-837.

Ellis, J. R., C. H. Pashley, J. M. Burke, D. E. McCauley (2006). High genetic diversity in a rare and endangered sunflower as compared to a common congener. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 15(9): 2345-2355

Pashley C. H., J. R. Ellis, D. E. McCauley, J. M. Burke (2006). EST databases as a source for molecular markers: lessons from Helianthus. JOURNAL OF HEREDITY 97(4): 381-388. Cover Illustration.

Barthelmess EL, Richards CM, McCauley DE (2006). Relative effects of nocturnal vs diurnal pollinators and distance on gene flow in small Silene alba populations NEW PHYTOLOGIST 169(4): 689-698

Bailey MF, McCauley DE (2006) The effects of inbreeding, outbreeding and long-distance gene flow on survivorship in North American populations of Silene vulgaris. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 94(1): 98-109

Wade MJ, McCauley DE (2005). Paternal leakage sustains the cytoplasmic polymorphism underlying gynodioecy but remains invasible by nuclear restorers
AMERICAN NATURALIST 166(5):592-602

McCauley DE, Bailey MF, Sherman NA, Darnell MZ (2005). Evidence for paternal transmission and heteroplasmy in the mitochondrial genome of Silene vulgaris, a gynodioecious plant. HEREDITY 95(1): 50-58