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Selected Publications (Current CV)


  • Sloan, D.B., C.M. Barr, S.R. Keller, M. Olson and D.R. TAYLOR . 2007 Evolutionary Rate Variation at Multiple Levels of Biological Organization in Plant Mitochondrial DNA. Accepted with minor revision to Molecular Biology and Evolution.

  • Keller, S.R. and D.R. TAYLOR . 2007 History, chance, and adaptation during biological invasion: separating stochastic phenotypic evolution from response to selection. Revision invited to Ecology Letters .

  • TAYLOR , D.R. and S.R. Keller. 2007. Historical range expansion determines the phylogenetic diversity introduced during contemporary species invasion. Evolution 61, 334–345 .

  • Barr, C.M., S.R. Keller, P.K. Ingvarsson, D.B. Sloan, and D.R. TAYLOR . 2007. Variation in Mutation Rate and Polymorphism Among Mitochondrial Genes of Silene vulgaris. Molecular Biology and Evolution (in press).
  • Freedberg, S. and D.R. TAYLOR 2007. Sex ratio variance and the maintenance of environmental sex determination. 20 (1), 213–220.
  • Rissler, L. J., H. M. Wilbur, and D. R. TAYLOR. 2005. The influence of ecology and genetics on behavioral variation in salamander populations across the Eastern Continental Divide. American Naturalist 164:201-213.
  • Olson, M. McCauley, D. and D.R. TAYLOR. 2005. Genetics and adaptation in structured populations: Sex ratio evolution in Silene vulgaris. Genetica 123:49-62.
  • Church , S.A. and D.R. TAYLOR 2005. Speciation and hybridization among Houstonia (Rubiaceae) species: The influence of polyploidy on reticulate evolution. American Journal of Botany 92:1372-1380.
  • Barr, C.M., M. Neiman and D.R. TAYLOR. 2005. Inheritance and recombination of mitochondrial genomes in plants, fungi and animals. New Phytologist 168:39-50.
  • Olson, M. McCauley, D. and D.R. TAYLOR. 2004. Genetics and adaptation in structured populations: Sex ratio evolution in Silene Vulgaris. In Genetics and Adaptation (R. Mauricio, ed.).
  • G. Bernasconi, T.-L. Ashman, T. R. Birkhead, J.D.D. Bishop, U. Grossniklaus, E. Kubli, D.L. Marshall, B. Schmid, I. Skogsmyr, R.R. Snook, D. TAYLOR, I. Till-Bottraud, P.I. Ward, D. Zeh, B. Hellriegel. Evolutionary ecology of the pre-zygotic stage in animals and flowering plants. Science 303: 971-975. pdf
  • Ingvarsson, P.K., Ribstein, S. and TAYLOR, D. R. 2003. Molecular Evolution of Insertions and Deletion in the Chloroplast Genome of Silene. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20: 1737-1740. pdf
  • Rissler, L.J. and D.R. TAYLOR . 2003. The phylogenetics of desmognathine salamander populations across the southern Appalachians . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27: 197-211.
  • Church , S.A. , J.M. Kraus, J.C. Mitchell, D.R. Church and D.R. TAYLOR . 2003. Evidence for multiple Pleistocene refugia in the post-glacial expansion of the eastern tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum . Evolution 57: 372-383. pdf
  • TAYLOR , D.R. and P.K. Ingvärsson. 2003. Common features of segregation distortion in plants and animals. Genetica 117: 27-35.
  • Stilwell, K.L, H.M. Wilbur, C.R. Werth and D.R. TAYLOR . 2003. Heterozygote advantage in the American Chestnut, Castanea dentata (Fagaceae). American Journal of Botany 90: 207-213.
  • TAYLOR , D.R., C. Zeyl and E. Cooke. 2002. Conflicting levels of selection in the accumulation of mitochondrial defects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99: 360-3694. pdf
  • Ingvärsson, P.K. and D.R. TAYLOR . 2002. Genealogical evidence for epidemics of selfish genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99: 11265-11269. pdf
  • Church, S. and D.R. TAYLOR . 2002. The evolution of reproductive isolation in spatially structured populations. Evolution 56: 1859-1962.
  • Delph, L.F., F. N. Knapczyk and D.R. TAYLOR . 2002. Among-population variation and correlations in sexually dimorphic traits in Silene latifolia . Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 15: 1011-1020. pdf
  • Taylor, D.R. 2002. Ecology and evolution of reduced virulence in the chestnut-blight host pathogen system. pp. 286-296 in Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases , U. Dieckman, J.A.J. Metz, M. Sabelis, K. Sigmund (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Taylor , D.R., Olson, M., and D. McCauley. 2001. A quantitative genetic analysis of nuclear cytoplasmic male sterility in structured populations of Silene vulgaris. Genetics 158: 833-841.
  • McCauley, D. E., Olson, M.S. and D. R. TAYLOR. 2001. An association between chloroplast DNA haplotype and gender in a plant metapopulation. Evolutionary Ecology 14: 181-194. pdf
  • McCauley, D. E., M. S. Olson, S. N. Emery, and D. R. Taylor , 2000 Population structure influences sex ratio evolution in a gynodioecious plant. American Naturalist 155: 814-819.
  • Franklin, R., D.R. TAYLOR and A. Mills. 2000. The distribution of microbial communities in anaerobic and aerobic zones of a shallow coastal plain aquifer. Microbial Ecology 38: 377-386. pdf
  • Taylor , D.R., M. J. Saur and E. Adams . 1999. Variation in pollen performance and its consequences for sex ratio evolution in a dioecious plant. Evolution 53: 1028-1036.
  • Taylor , D.R., S. Trimble and D. E. McCauley. 1999. Ecological genetics of gynodioecy in Silene vulgaris : relative fitness of females and hermaphrodites during the colonization process. Evolution 53: 745-751.
  • Taylor , D.R. 1999. Genetics of sex ratio variation among natural populations of a dioecious plant. Evolution 53: 55-62.
  • Franklin, R., D.R. TAYLOR and A. Mills. 1999. Characterization of microbial community structure in aquifers using Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD). Journal of Microbiological Methods 35:225-235. pdf
  • Taylor , D.R., A.M. Jarosz, R.E. Lenski and D. Fulbright. 1998. Acquisition of hypovirulence in host-pathogen systems with three trophic levels. American Naturalist 151: 343-355.
  • McCauley, D.E. and D.R. TAYLOR . 1997. Local population structure and the sex ratio: evolution in gynodioecious plants. American Naturalist 150: 406-419.
  • Taylor , D.R. 1996. Parental expenditure and offspring sex ratios in the dioecious plant, Silene alba (= S. latifolia ). American Naturalist 147: 870-879.
  • Crone, E.E. and D.R. TAYLOR. 1996. Complex dynamics in experimental populations of an annual plant, Cardamine pennsylvanica . Ecology 77: 289-299.
  • Taylor , D.R. 1994. Sex ratio in hybrids between Silene alba and Silene dioica : evidence for Y-linked restorers. Heredity 74: 518-526.
  • Taylor , D.R. 1994. The genetic basis of sex ratio distortion in Silene alba . Genetics 136: 341-351. pdf
  • Aarssen, L.W. and D.R. TAYLOR . 1992. Fecundity allocation in herbaceous plants. Oikos 65: 222-232.
  • Taylor , D.R. 1991. The genetics of aging. New Horizons . August 1991.
  • Taylor , D.R. 1990. Evolutionary consequences of cytoplasmic sex ratio distorters. Evolutionary Ecology 4: 235-248.
  • Taylor , D.R. and L.W. Aarssen. 1990. Complex competitive relationships among genotypes of three perennial grasses: Implications for species coexistence. American Naturalist 136: 305-327.
  • Taylor , D.R., L.W. Aarssen, and C. Loehle. 1990. On the relationship between r/K selection and environmental carrying capacity: A new habitat templet for plant life history strategies. Oikos 58: 239-250.
  • Taylor , D.R. and L.W. Aarssen. 1989. On the density dependence of replacement series competition experiments. Journal of Ecology 77: 975-988.
  • Taylor , D.R. and L.W. Aarssen. 1988. An interpretation of phenotypic plasticity in Agropyron repens (Graminae). American Journal of Botany 75: 401-413.

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