Wild Oats

Johansen-Morris, A.D. and R.G. Latta. Fitness consequences of hybridization between ecotypes of Avena barbata: Hybrid breakdown, hybrid vigour and transgressive segregation. Evolution 60:1585-1595.

Latta, R.G., A.D. Johansen and K.M. Gardner. Hybridization, recombination, and the genetic basis of fitness variation across environments in Avena barbata. Genetica 129:167-177.

Gardner, K.M. and R. G. Latta. 2006. Identifying the targets of selection across contrasting environments in Avena barbata using Quantitative trait locus mapping. Molecular Ecology 15 (5), 1321-1333

Latta, R.G.,J.L. MacKenzie, A. Vats, and D.J. Schoen. 2004. Divergence and segregation of quantitative traits between allozyme genotypes of Avena barbata from contrasting habitats. Journal of Ecology 92:57-71.

Comparisons among loci and traits : Fst and Qst

Latta, R.G. 1998. Differentiation of allelic frequencies at quantitative trait loci affecting locally adaptive traits. American Naturalist, 151:293-292.

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

Latta,R.G. 2004. Gene flow and adaptive population divergence. New Phytologist 151:63-68.

Latta, R.G. 2006. Using comparisons among different classes of genetic marker to infer spatial processes. Landscape Ecology 21:809-820.

Molecular markers and Pines

Latta, R.G. and J.B. Mitton. 1997. A comparison of population differentiation across four classes of gene marker in limber pine (Pinus flexilis , James). Genetics, 146:1153-1163.

Latta, R.G., Y.B. Linhart, D. Fleck and M. Elliot. 1998. Direct and indirect estimates of seed vs pollen movement within a population of ponderosa pine. Evolution, 52:61-67.

Latta, R.G. Y.B. Linhart and J.B. Mitton. 2001. Cytonuclear disequilibria and effective population size in a recently founded population of ponderosa pine. Genetics 158: 843-850.

Johansen, A.D. and R.G. Latta. 2003. Mitochondrial haplotype distribution, seed dispersal and patterns of post glacial expansion of ponderosa pine. Molecular Ecology, 12:293-298.


Lascoux, M., A E. Palme, R. Cheddadi, and R. G. Latta. 2004. Impact of the Ice Ages on the genetic structure of trees and shrubs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 359: 197-207.

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