Articles
Genome size as a predictor of guard cell length in Arabidopsis thaliana is independent of environmental conditions (with Barry H. Lomax, F. Ian Woodward, Ilia J. Leitch, and Janice A. Lake), New Phytologist (2009)
• The recent discovery of a strong positive relationship between angiosperm genome size and stomatal...
Genome size is a strong predictor of cell size and stomatal density in angiosperms (with Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Ilia J. Leitch, Sunil Patil, and Arjun Pendharkar), New Phytologist (2008)
• Across eukaryotes phenotypic correlations with genome size are thought to scale from genome size...
Climate Change and the Future of California's Endemic Flora (with Scott R. Loarie, Benjamin E. Carter, Katherine Hayhoe, Sean McMahon, Richard Moe, and David D. Ackerly), PLoS ONE (2008)
Genome Size Scaling through Phenotype Space (with Jeremy M. Beaulieu), Annals of Botany (2008)
Background and Aims Early observations that genome size was positively correlated with cell size formed...
Correlated evolution of genome size and cell volume in diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) (with Jessica A. Connolly, Matthew J. Oliver, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Lars Tomanek, and Mark A. Moline), Journal of Phycology (2008)
Genome Size Evolution in Relation to Leaf Strategy and Metabolic Rates Revisited (with Jeremy M. Beaulieu and Ilia J. Leitch), Annals of Botany (2007)
• Background and Aims It has been proposed that having too much DNA may carry...
Correlated evolution of genome size and seed mass (with Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Angela T. Moles, Ilia J. Leitch, Michael D. Bennett, and John B. Dickie), New Phytologist (2007)
• Previous investigators have identified strong positive relationships between genome size and seed mass within...
Improved monitoring of HABs using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) (with Ian C. Robbins, G. J. Kirkpatrick, Shelley M. Blackwell, J. Hillier, and Mark A. Moline), Harmful Algae (2006)
Blooms of toxic algae are increasing in magnitude and frequency around the globe, causing extensive...
Expression profiling and local adaptation of Boechera holboellii populations for water use efficiency across a naturally occurring water stress gradient (with Heiko Vogel, Juergen Kroymann, Alice Shumate, Hanneke Witsenboer, and Thomas Mitchell-Olds), Molecular Ecology (2006)
We studied the physiological basis of local adaptation to drought in Boechera holboellii, a perennial...
The Large Genome Constraint Hypothesis: Evolution, Ecology and Phenotype (with Nicole A. Molinari and Dmitri A. Petrov), Annals of Botany (2005)
• Background and Aims If large genomes are truly saturated with unnecessary ‘junk’ DNA, it...
Evolution and plasticity of photosynthetic thermal tolerance, specific leaf area and leaf size: congeneric species from desert and coastal environments (with David D. Ackerly), New Phytologist (2003)
• We examined whether increased high temperature photosynthetic thermal tolerance (PT), reduced specific leaf area...
Small heat shock protein responses of a closely related pair of desert and coastal Encelia (with David D. Ackerly), International Journal of Plant Sciences (2003)
Evolutionary variation for accumulation of small heat shock protein (sHsp) may contribute to thermal niche...
An ecological and evolutionary analysis of photosynthetic thermotolerance using the temperature-dependent increase in fluorescence (with David D. Ackerly), Oecologia (2002)
The hypothesis that species inhabiting warmer regions have greater photosynthetic tolerance of high temperatures was...
Leaf size, specific leaf area and microhabitat distribution of chaparral woody plants: contrasting patterns in species level and community level analyses (with D. D. Ackerly, S. B. Weiss, K. Barton, and K. P. Starmer), Oecologia (2002)
Variation in nuclear DNA content across environmental gradients: a quantile regression analysis (with David D. Ackerly), Ecology Letters (2002)
Correlated evolution of chloroplast heat shock protein expression in closely related plant species (with David D. Ackerly), American Journal of Botany (2001)
Interspecific variation in chloroplast low molecular weight (cLMW) HSP (heat shock protein) expression was examined...