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2008
Delph, L. F. and D. Bell. 2008. A test of the differential-plasticity hypothesis for variation in the degree of sexual dimorphism in Silene latifolia. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10:61-75.
Lively, C. M., L. F. Delph, M. Dybdahl, and J. Jokela. 2008. Experimental test of a coevolutionary hotspot in a host-parasite interaction. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10:95-103.
Dybdahl, M. F., J. Jokela, L. F. Delph, B. Koskella, and C. M. Lively. 2008. Hybrid fitness in a locally adapted parasite. American Naturalist (in press).
Herlihy, C. R. and L. F. Delph. Differential response of floral attractiveness and gametophyte production to stress in flower-size selection lines of Silene latifolia (Caryophyllaceae). In review: American Journal of Botany.
Touzet, P. and L. F. Delph. The effect of breeding system on polymorphism in mitochondrial genes of Silene. In review: Genetics.
Burkhardt, A., L. F. Delph, and G. Bernasconi. Effect of flower size and fruit abortion on larval performance in a plant – pollinator/seed-predator system. In review: Functional Ecology.
2007
Delph, L. F., P. Touzet, M. F. Bailey. 2007. Merging theory and mechanism in studies of gynodioecy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:17-24.
Steven, J. C., L. F. Delph, and E. D. Brodie III. 2007. Sexual dimorphism in the quantitative-genetic architecture of floral, leaf, and allocation traits in Silene latifolia. Evolution 61:42-57.
F. M. Frey, L. F. Delph, B. Dinneen, and C. Twomey. 2007. The evolution of sexually dimorphic flower production under sexual, fertility, and viability selection. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9:1-19.
Delph, L. F. 2007. The genetic integration of sexually dimorphic traits in the dioecious plant, Silene latifolia. In Sex, Size and Gender Roles. Evolutionary Studies of Sexual Size Dimorphism (D. J. Fairbairn, W. U. Blanckenhorn, and T. Szekely, eds.). Oxford University Press. Pp. 115-123.
Bailey, M. F. and L. F. Delph. 2007. Sex-ratio evolution in nuclear-cytoplasmic gynodioecy when restoration is a threshold trait. Genetics 176:2465-2476.
Mower, J. P., P. Touzet, J. S. Gummow, L. F. Delph, and J. D. Palmer. 2007. Extensive variation in synonymous substitution rates in mitochondrial genes of seed plants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:135.
Bailey, M. F. and L. F. Delph 2007. A field guide to models of sex-ratio evolution in gynodioecious species. Oikos 116:1609-1617.
Frey, F. M. 2007. Phenotypic integration and the potential for independent color evolution in a polymorphic spring ephemeral. American Journal of Botany 94:437-444.
2006
Takebayashi, N, D. E. Wolf, and L. F. Delph. 2006. Effect of variation in herkogamy on outcrossing within a population of Gilia achilleifolia. Heredity 96:159-165.
Delph, L. F. and T.-L. Ashman. 2006. Traits affecting mating success in flowering plants: harmony vs. opposition among traits and sex functions. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46:465 - 472 .
Gehring, J. L. and L. F. Delph. 2006. Experimental manipulation of source-sink ratio in females of Silene latifolia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167:843-851.
Scotti, I and L. F. Delph. 2006. Selective trade-offs and sex-chromosome evolution in Silene latifolia. Evolution 60: 1793-1800.
Delph, L. F., C. M. Lively, and C. J. Webb. 2006. Gynodioecy in native New Zealand Gaultheria (Ericaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 44: 415-420.
Busch, J. W. 2006. Heterosis in an isolated, effectively small, and self-fertilizing population of the flowering plant Leavenworthia alabamica. Evolution 60: 184-191.
Marr, D. 2006. Seed fitness of hermaphrodites in areas with females and anther-smut disease: Silene acaulis and Microbotryum violaceum. New Phytologist 169: 741-751.
Anderson, I. A. and J.W. Busch. 2006. Relaxed pollinator-mediated selection weakens floral integration in self-compatible taxa of Leavenworthia (Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany 93: 860-867.
2005
Delph, L. F. and D. E. Wolf. 2005. Evolutionary consequences of gender plasticity in genetically dimorphic breeding systems. New Phytologist 166: 119-128.
Marr, D. L. and L. F. Delph. 2005. Spatial and temporal pattern of a pollinator-transmitted pathogen in a long-lived perennial (Silene acaulis). Evolutionary Ecology Research 7: 335-352.
Davis, S. L. and L. F. Delph. 2005. Prior selfing and gynomonoecy in Silene noctiflora L. (Caryophyllaceae): opportunities for enhanced outcrossing and reproductive assurance. International Journal of Plant Sciences 166: 475-480. [Published by the University of Chicago Press: pdf]
Frey, F. M., R. Davis, and L. F. Delph. 2005. Manipulation of floral symmetry does not affect seed production in Impatiens pallida. International Journal of Plant Sciences 166: 659-662. [published by the University of Chicago Press: pdf]
Delph, L. F. 2005. Processes that constrain and facilitate the evolution of sexual dimorphism. American Naturalist 166:S1-S4.
Delph, L. F., J. L. Gehring, A. M. Artnz, M. Levri, and F. M. Frey. 2005. Genetic correlations with floral display lead to sexual dimorphism in the cost of reproduction. American Naturalist 166: S31-S41.
Busch, J. W. 2005. The evolution of self-compatibility in geographically peripheral populations of Leavenworthia alabamica (Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany 92:1503-1512.
Weinig, C. 2005. Rapid evolutionary responses to selection in heterogeneous environments among agricultural and nonagricultural weeds. International Journal of Plant Sciences 166: 641-647.
Busch, J. W. 2005. Inbreeding depression in self-incompatible and self-compatible populations of Leavenworthia alabamica. Heredity 94:159-165.
2004
Delph, L. F. 2004. Testing for sex differences in biparental inbreeding and its consequences in a gynodioecious species. American Journal of Botany 91: 45-51. [pdf]
Delph, L. F., J. L. Gehring, F. M. Frey, A. M. Artnz, and M. Levri. 2004. Genetic constraints on floral evolution in a sexually dimorphic plant revealed by artificial selection. Evolution 58: 1936-1946. [pdf]
Lively, C. M., M. F. Dybdahl, J. Jokela, E. E. Osnas, and L. F. Delph. 2004. Host sex and local adaptation by parasites in a snail-trematode interaction. American Naturalist 164: S6-S18. [pdf]
Delph, L. F., F. M. Frey, J. C. Steven, and J. L. Gehring. 2004. Investigating the independent evolution of the size of floral parts via G-matrix estimation and artificial selection. Evolution and Development 6: 438-448.
Gehring, J. L., J. Scoby, M. Parsons, and L. F. Delph. 2004. Whole-plant investment in nectar is higher in males than in pollinated females in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia. Evolutionary Ecology Research 6: 1237-1252.
Frey, F. M. 2004. Opposing natural selection from herbivores and pathogens may maintain floral-color variation in Claytonia virginica (Portulacaceae). Evolution 58: 2426-2437.
2003
Delph, L. F. 2003. Sexual dimorphism in gender plasticity and its consequences for breeding-system evolution. Evolution and Development 5: 34-39.
Delph, L. F. and P. Mutikainen. 2003. Tests of why maternal gender affects offspring performance in a gynodioecious species. Evolution 57: 231-239. [pdf]
Bailey, M. F., L. F. Delph, and C. M. Lively. 2003. Modeling gynodioecy: novel scenarios maintaining polymorphism. American Naturalist 161: 762-776. [pdf]
2002
Delph, L. F. 2002. Plant mating systems. Encyclopedia of Evolution. Oxford University Press, NY.
Arntz, A. M., E. M. Vozar, and L. F. Delph. 2002. Serial adjustments in allocation to reproduction: effects of photosynthetic genotype. International Journal of Plant Sciences 163: 591-597. [Published by the University of Chicago Press: pdf]
Städler, T. and L. F. Delph. 2002. Ancient mitochondrial haplotypes and evidence for intragenic recombination in a gynodioecious plant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99: 11730-11735.
Delph, L. F., F. N. Knapczyk, and D. R. Taylor. 2002. Among-population variation and correlations in sexually dimorphic traits of Silene latifolia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15: 1011-1020. [pdf]
Bailey, M. F. 2002. A cost of restoration of male fertility in a gynodioecious species, Lobelia siphilitica. Evolution 56: 2178-2186.
Weinig, C. 2002. Phytochrome photoreceptors mediate plasticity to light quality in flowers of the Brassicaceae. American Journal of Botany 89: 230-235.
Davis, S. L. 2002. Allocation to floral structures in Thalictrum pubescens (Ranunculaceae), a cryptically dioecious species. Annals of Botany 90:119-126.
2001
Delph, L. F. and S. B. Carroll. 2001. Factors affecting relative seed fitness and female frequency in a gynodioecious species (Silene acaulis). Evolutionary Ecology Research 3: 487-505. [pdf]
Artnz, A. M. and L. F. Delph. 2001. Pattern and process: evidence for the evolution of photosynthetic traits in natural populations. Oecologia 127:455-467.
Dudle, D., P. Mutikainen, and L. F. Delph. 2001. Genetics of sex determination in the gynodioecious species Lobelia siphilitica: evidence from two populations. Heredity 86: 265-276.
Weinig, C and L. F. Delph. 2001. Plasticity expressed early in life constrains developmental responses later in life. Evolution 55: 930-936. [pdf]
Delph, L. F. 2001. Mutated into oblivion. Science 292 (5526): 2437-2438 (invited book review)
Meagher, T. R. and L. F. Delph. 2001. Individual flower demography, floral phenology, and floral display size in Silene latifolia. Evolutionary Ecology Research 3: 845-860. [pdf]
2000
Takebayashi, N. and L. F. Delph. 2000. An association between a floral trait and inbreeding depression. Evolution 54: 840-846. [pdf]
Raimondi, P. T., S. E. Forde, L. F. Delph, and C. M. Lively. 2000. Processes structuring communities: evidence for trait-mediated indirect effects through induced polymorphisms. Oikos 91: 353-361
Weinig, C. 2000. Differing selection in alternative competitive environments: shade-avoidance responses and germination timing. Evolution 54: 124-136.
Weinig, C. 2000. Plasticity versus canalization: population differences in the timing of shade-avoidance responses. Evolution 54: 441-451.
Weinig, C. 2000. Limits to adaptive plasticity: temperature and photoperiod influence plant competitive responses. American Journal of Botany 87: 1660-1668.