Articles

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Consequences of a Genetic Bottleneck in California Condors: A Mitochondrial DNA Perspective (with Mary S. Adams), Series in Ornithology: Condors in the 21st Century (2007)

The California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) has recently survived a severe population bottleneck. The entire population...

 

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Invasion genetics of New World medflies: testing alternative colonization scenarios (with Andrew J. Bohonak, Neil Davies, and George K. Roderick), Biological Invasions (2001)

The Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) is an invasive agricultural pest with a wide host...

 

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Low genetic diversity in an endangered species: recent or historic pattern? (with Marjorie D. Matocq), Biological Conversation (2001)

Examining patterns of genetic diversity has become an integral component of many management plans concerning...

 

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Is population genetics mired in the past? (with Andrew J. Bohonak, Neil Davies, and George K. Roderick), Trends in Ecology and Evolution (1998)
 

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Invasion genetics of the Mediterranean fruit fly: variation in multiple nuclear introns (with G. K. Roderick and S. R. Palumbi), Molecular Ecology (1998)

Biological invasions generally start from low initial population sizes, leading to reduced genetic variation in...

 

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Disparate Rates of Molecular Evolution in Cospeciating Hosts and Parasites (with M. S. Hafner, P. D. Sudman, T. A. Spradling, J. W. Demastes, and S. A. Nadler), Science (1994)

DNA sequences for the gene encoding mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I in a group of rodents...

 

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Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Populations Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA, Ancient DNA, editited by B. Heermann and S. Hummel (1994)

The evolutionary analysis of DNA sequences bridges phylogenetics and population genetics. Ancient DNA (aDNA) alJows...

 

Conference Proceedings

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Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: Amplification and sequencing with conserved primers (with T. D. Kocher, W. K. Thomas, A. Meyer, S. V. Edwards, S. Pääbo, and A. C. Wilson), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the Unted States (1989)

With a standard set of primers directed toward conserved regions, we have used the polymerase...

 

Contributions to Books

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Spatial and Temporal Continuity of Kangaroo Rat Populations Shown by Sequencing Mitochondrial DNA from Museum Specimens (with W. Kelley Thomas, Svante Pääbo, and Allan C. Wilson), Journal of Molecular Evolution (1990)

The advent of direct sequencing via the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has opened up the...