Douglas R. Taylor

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Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates

Daniel B Sloan, Andrew J Alverson, +4 authors Douglas R. Taylor
PLoS biology
2012

Genome size and complexity vary tremendously among eukaryotic species and their organelles. Comparisons across deeply divergent eukaryotic lineages have suggested that variation in mutation rates may… (More)

Inheritance and recombination of mitochondrial genomes in plants, fungi and animals.

Camille M. Barr, Maurine Neiman, Douglas R. Taylor
The New phytologist
2005

It is generally assumed that mitochondrial genomes are uniparentally transmitted, homoplasmic and nonrecombining. However, these assumptions draw largely from early studies on animal mitochondrial… (More)

Local population structure and sex ratio: evolution in gynodioecious plants.

David E. McCauley, Douglas R. Taylor
The American naturalist
1997

Although the influence of population structure on evolution has been explored previously in a variety of theoretical studies, there are few examples of specific traits whose fitness is likely to be… (More)

Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial substitution rate variation in the angiosperm tribe Sileneae

Daniel B Sloan, Bengt Oxelman, Anja Rautenberg, Douglas R. Taylor
BMC Evolutionary Biology
2009

Recent phylogenetic studies have revealed that the mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene noctiflora (Caryophyllaceae) has experienced a massive mutation-driven acceleration in substitution… (More)

History, chance and adaptation during biological invasion: separating stochastic phenotypic evolution from response to selection.

Stephen R Keller, Douglas R. Taylor
Ecology letters
2008

Introduced species often exhibit changes in genetic variation, population structure, selection regime and phenotypic traits as they colonize and expand into new ranges. For these reasons, species… (More)

Extensive loss of translational genes in the structurally dynamic mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene latifolia

Daniel B Sloan, Andrew J Alverson, Helena Štorchová, Jeffrey D. Palmer, Douglas R. Taylor
BMC Evolutionary Biology
2010

Mitochondrial gene loss and functional transfer to the nucleus is an ongoing process in many lineages of plants, resulting in substantial variation across species in mitochondrial gene content. The… (More)

Evidence for multiple Pleistocene refugia in the postglacial expansion of the eastern tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum.

Sheri A Church, Johanna M. Kraus, J. Christopher Mitchell, Don R. Church, Douglas R. Taylor
Evolution; international journal of organic…
2003

Pleistocene glaciations were important determinants of historical migration and, hence, current levels of genetic diversity within and among populations. In many cases, these historical migrations… (More)

Common Features of Segregation Distortion in Plants and Animals

Segregation distortion is increasingly recognized as a potentially powerful evolutionary force. This runs counter to the perception that non-Mendelian genes are rare genetic curiosities, a view that… (More)

Accelerated mutation accumulation in asexual lineages of a freshwater snail.

Maurine Neiman, Gery L. Hehman, J. Nienhuis'J. T. Miller, John M. Logsdon, Douglas R. Taylor
Molecular biology and evolution
2010

Sexual reproduction is both extremely costly and widespread relative to asexual reproduction, meaning that it must also confer profound advantages in order to persist. One theorized benefit of sex is… (More)

Historical range expansion determines the phylogenetic diversity introduced during contemporary species invasion.

Douglas R. Taylor, Stephen R Keller
Evolution; international journal of organic…
2007

For a species rapidly expanding its geographic range, such as during biological invasion, most alleles in the introduced range will have their evolutionary origins in the native range. Yet, the way… (More)

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