The McKay Lab

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Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management

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Publications

Ghalambor, C., J.K. McKay, S. Carroll, D. Reznick. 2007. Adaptive versus non-adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments. Functional Ecology 21: 394–407. PDF

Meimberg, H., T. Abele, C. Bräuchler, J.K. McKay, P.L. Pérez de Paz and G. Heubl. 2007. Molecular evidence for adaptive radiation of Micromeria Benth. (Lamiaceae) on the Canary Islands as inferred from chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences and ISSR fingerprint data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press. PDF

Wright, J., K. Davies, J. Lau*, A. McCall* and J.K. McKay. 2006. Experimental determination of the niche reveals the importance of local adaptation in a species with broad tolerance. Ecology, 87: 2433-2439. PDF

Juenger, T.E., T. Wayne, S. Boles, V. Symonds, J.K. McKay and S. J. Coughlan. 2006. Natural genetic variation in whole-genome expression in Arabidopsis thaliana: the impact of physiological QTL introgression. Molecular Ecology 15: 1351-1365. PDF

Meimberg, H., J. Hammond*, C. Jorgensen*, T. Park*, K.J. Rice and J.K. McKay. 2006. Molecular evidence for an extreme genetic bottleneck during introduction of an invading grass to California. Biological Invasions 8: 1355- 1366. PDF

McKay, J.K., C. Christian*, S. Harrison, and K.J. Rice. 2005. “How local is local?” Practical and conceptual Issues in the genetics of restoration. Restoration Ecology 13: 432-440. PDF

Forister*, M. and J.K. McKay. 2005. Post-Modern Speciation. Book Review of Speciation by J.A. Coyne and H.A. Orr. Ecology 86: 808-809. PDF

Juenger, T., J.K. McKay, N. Hausman, J.H. Richards, E. Simms, T. Dawson and S. Sen. 2005. Identification and characterization of physiological QTL in Arabidopsis thaliana: d13C, stomatal conductance, and plant performance. Plant, Cell and Environment 28: 697-708. PDF

Martin*, P.R. and J.K. McKay. 2004. Latitudinal variation in genetic divergence of populations and the potential for future speciation. Evolution 58: 938-945. PDF

McKay, J.K., J.H. Richards, and T. Mitchell-Olds. 2003. Genetics of drought adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana. I. Pleiotropy contributes to genetic correlations among ecological traits. Molecular Ecology 12: 1137-1151. PDF

McKay, J.K. and R.G. Latta. 2002. Adaptive population divergence:  markers, QTL and traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 285-291. PDF

Sexton*, J.P., J.K. McKay and A. Sala. 2002. Ecological genetics of the invasive shrub, Tamarix ramosissima, at latitudinal extremes. Ecological Applications 12: 1652-1660. PDF

Latta, R.G. and J.K. McKay. 2002. Genetic population divergence: markers and traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 501-502. PDF

McKay, J.K., J.G. Bishop, J.Z. Lin, A. Sala, J.H. Richards, and T. Mitchell-Olds. 2001.  Local adaptation across a climatic gradient despite small effective population size in the rare sapphire rockcress. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Biological Sciences 268: 1715-1721. PDF

Bradshaw, H.D., K.G. Otto, B.E. Frewen, J.K. McKay and D.W. Schemske. 1998. Quantitative trait loci affecting differences in floral morphology between two species of monkeyflower (Mimulus). Genetics 149: 367-382. PDF