PUBLICATIONS
Lynch, M., Sung, W., Morris, K., Coffey, N., Landry, C.R., Dopman, E.B., Dickinson, W.J., Okamoto, K., Kulkarni, S., Hartl, D.L. and Thomas W.K. ¡°A genome-wide view of the spectrum of spontaneous mutations in yeast.¡± PNAS 105:9272-9288, 2008.
Ye, W., Giblin-Davis, R.M., Davies, K.A., Purcell, M.F., Scheffer, S.J., Taylor, G.S., Center, T.D., Morris, K., and Thomas, W.K. ¡°Molecular phylogenetics and the evolution of host-plant associations in the nematode genus Fergusobia (Tylenchida: Fergusobiinae). Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 45:123-141, 2007
Ye, W., Giblin-Davis, R.M., Braasch, H., Morris, K., and Thomas, W.K. ¡°Phylogenetic Relationships Among Bursaphelenchus Species (Nematoda: Parasitaphelenchidae) Inferred From Nuclear Ribosomal and Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data¡± Mol. Phylogen. Evol., 43:1185-1197, 2007.
Giblin-Davis, R., Ye, W., Kanzaki, N., Williams, D., Morris, K., and Thomas, W.K. ¡°Stomatal ultrastructure, molecular phylogeny, and description of Parasitodiplogaster laevigata n. sp. (Nematoda: Diplogastridae), a parasite of fig wasps.¡± J. Nematol. 38:137-149, 2006.
De Ley, P., De Ley, I.T., Morris, K., Abebe, E., Mundo-Ocampo, M., Yoder, M., Heras, J., Waumann, D., Rocha-Olivares, A., Jay-Burr, A.H., Baldwin, J.G., and Thomas W.K. ¡°An integrated approach to fast and informative morphological vouchering of nematodes for applications in molecular barcoding.¡± Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 360:1945-58, 2005.
Denver, D.R., Morris, K., Streelman, J.T., Kim, S.K., Lynch, M., and Thomas, W.K. ¡°The Transcriptional Consequences of Mutation and Natural Selection in Caenorhabditis elegans¡± Nature Genetics, 37:544-548, 2005. (PDF)
Denver, D.R., Morris, K., Lynch, M., and Thomas, W.K. ¡°High Mutation Rate and Predominance of Insertions in the Caenorhabditis elegans Nuclear Genome.¡± Nature 430:679-682, 2004.
Denver, D.R., Morris, K., Kewalramani, A., Harris, K., Chow, A., Randell-Estes, S., Lynch, M., and Thomas, W.K. ¡°Abundance, Distribution and Mutation Rates of Homopolymeric Nucleotide Runs in the Genome of Caenorhabditis elegans,¡± Journal of Molecular Evolution, 58:584-595, 2004.
Denver, D.R., Morris, K., and Thomas, W.K. ¡°Phylogenetics in Caenorhabditis elegans: an analysis of divergence and outcrossing.¡± Mol. Biol. Evol. 20: 393-400, 2003.
Giblin-Davis, R.M., Davies, K.A., Morris, K. and Thomas, W.K. ¡°Evolution of Parasitism in Insect-transmitted Plant Nematodes¡± Journal of Nematology, 35:133-141, 2003.
Denver, D.R., Morris, K., Lynch, M., Vassilieva, L.L., and Thomas, W.K. ¡°High Direct Estimate of the Mutation Rate in the Mitochondrial Genome of Caenorhabditis elegans¡± Science 289:2342-2344, 2000.
Duncan, L.W., Inserra, R.N., Thomas, W.K., Dunn, D., Mustika, I., Frisse, L.M., Mendes, M.L., Morris, K. and Kaplan, D.T. ¡°Molecular and Morphological Analysis of Isolates of Pratylenchus coffeae and Closely Related Species¡± Nematropica 29:61-80, 1999.