Kevin J Emerson

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Affiliation: University of Oregon
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Concordance of the circadian clock with the environment is necessary to maximize fitness in natural populations
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
    Evolution 62:979-83. 2008
  2. ncbi Extrinsic light:dark cycles, rather than endogenous circadian cycles, affect the photoperiodic counter in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 194:611-5. 2008
  3. ncbi Evolution of photoperiodic time measurement is independent of the circadian clock in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 195:385-91. 2009
  4. ncbi Complications of complexity: integrating environmental, genetic and hormonal control of insect diapause
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    Trends Genet 25:217-25. 2009
  5. ncbi Environmental control of ovarian dormancy in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 195:825-9. 2009
  6. ncbi Microarrays reveal early transcriptional events during the termination of larval diapause in natural populations of the mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e9574. 2010
  7. ncbi Footprints in time: comparative quantitative trait loci mapping of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
    William E Bradshaw
    Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 279:4551-8. 2012
  8. ncbi Resolving postglacial phylogeography using high-throughput sequencing
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:16196-200. 2010

Detail Information

Publications8

  1. ncbi Concordance of the circadian clock with the environment is necessary to maximize fitness in natural populations
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
    Evolution 62:979-83. 2008
    ....
  2. ncbi Extrinsic light:dark cycles, rather than endogenous circadian cycles, affect the photoperiodic counter in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 194:611-5. 2008
    ....
  3. ncbi Evolution of photoperiodic time measurement is independent of the circadian clock in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 195:385-91. 2009
    ..smithii has not been causally mediated by a corresponding evolution of the circadian clock...
  4. ncbi Complications of complexity: integrating environmental, genetic and hormonal control of insect diapause
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 5289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    Trends Genet 25:217-25. 2009
    ..Understanding the genetic basis for environmental control of diapause has wider implications for evolutionary response to rapid climate change and for the opportunity to observe evolutionary change in contemporary time...
  5. ncbi Environmental control of ovarian dormancy in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 195:825-9. 2009
    ..We conclude that ovarian dormancy in D. melanogaster is a temperature-initiated syndrome of winter-tolerant traits that represents an adaptive phenotypic plasticity in temperate seasonal environments...
  6. ncbi Microarrays reveal early transcriptional events during the termination of larval diapause in natural populations of the mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
    PLoS ONE 5:e9574. 2010
    ..We use a forward genetic approach to investigate transcriptional events involved in the termination of diapause following exposure to long-days...
  7. ncbi Footprints in time: comparative quantitative trait loci mapping of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii
    William E Bradshaw
    Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 279:4551-8. 2012
    ....
  8. ncbi Resolving postglacial phylogeography using high-throughput sequencing
    Kevin J Emerson
    Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:16196-200. 2010
    ....