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| Kevin J EmersonSummaryAffiliation: University of Oregon Country: USA Publications
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Concordance of the circadian clock with the environment is necessary to maximize fitness in natural populationsKevin J Emerson
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
Evolution 62:979-83. 2008....
Extrinsic light:dark cycles, rather than endogenous circadian cycles, affect the photoperiodic counter in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiKevin 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....
Evolution of photoperiodic time measurement is independent of the circadian clock in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiKevin 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...
Complications of complexity: integrating environmental, genetic and hormonal control of insect diapauseKevin 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...
Environmental control of ovarian dormancy in natural populations of Drosophila melanogasterKevin 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...
Microarrays reveal early transcriptional events during the termination of larval diapause in natural populations of the mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiKevin 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...
Footprints in time: comparative quantitative trait loci mapping of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithiiWilliam E Bradshaw
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 5289, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:4551-8. 2012....
Resolving postglacial phylogeography using high-throughput sequencingKevin 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....
