Publications

 

 

2008

 

Lau, J. A., J. Peiffer, P. B. Reich, and P. Tiffin. 2008. Transgenerational effects of global environmental change: Long-term CO2 and nitrogen treatments influence offspring growth response to elevated CO2. Oecologia, in press.

 

Tenaillon, M. I., and P. Tiffin. 2008. The quest for adaptive evolution: a theoretical challenge in a maze of data. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 11: 110-115.

 

Strauss, S. Y., J. A. Lau, T. W. Schoener, and P. Tiffin. 2008. Evolution in ecological field experiments: implications for effect size. Ecology Letters 11: 199-207

 

 

 

2007

 

Lau, J. A., J. Strengbom, L. R. Stone, P. B. Reich, and P. Tiffin. 2007. Direct and indirect effects of CO2 enrichment, N fertilization, and community diversity on plant-enemy interactions. Ecology 89: 226-236. pdf.

 

Moeller, D. A., M. I. Tenaillon, and P. Tiffin. 2007. Population structure and its effects on patterns of nucleotide polymorphism in teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis). Genetics 176: 1799-1809. pdf.

 

Lau, J., R. G. Shaw, P. B. Reich, F. H. Shaw, and P. Tiffin. 2007. Strong ecological but weak evolutionary effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 has little effect on the evolution of ecologically important traits in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist 175: 351-362. pdf.

 

Heath, K. and P. Tiffin. 2007. Context dependence in the coevolution of plant and rhizobial mutualists. Proc. of the Royal Society B. 274: 1905-1912. pdf.

 

Brock, M. T., P. Tiffin, and C. Weinig. 2007. Sequence diversity and haplotype associations with phenotypic responses to crowding: GIGANTEA affects fruit set in Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Ecology 16: 3050-3062. pdf.

 

Perovic D., P. Tiffin, D. Douchkov, H. Baumlein, and A. Graner. 2007. An integrated approach for the comparative analysis of a multigene family: The nicotianamine synthase genes of barley. Functional and Integrative Genomics 7, 169-179. pdf

 

 

 

2006

 

Tiffin, P. and D. A. Moeller. 2006. The molecular evolution of plant immune system genes. Trends in Genetics 22: 662-670. pdf.

 

Tiffin, P, B. D. Inouye, and N. C. Underwood. 2006. Induction and herbivore mobility affect the evolution of plant defense and herbivore counter defense. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8: 265-277

 

 

 

2001 - 2005

 

Moeller, D. A. and P. Tiffin. 2005. Genetic diversity and the evolutionary history of plant immunity genes in two species of Zea. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22: 2480-2490. pdf

 

Tiffin, P, R. Hacker, and B. S. Gaut. 2004. Population genetic evidence for rapid changes in intra-specific diversity and allelic cycling of defense genes in Zea. Genetic 168: 425-434. pdf

Tiffin, P. 2004. Comparative evolutionary histories of chitinase genes in the genus Zea and family Poaceae. Genetics 167: 1331-1340. pdf

Moyle, L. C., M. S. Olson, and P. Tiffin. 2004 Patterns of reproductive isolation in three Angiosperm genera. Evolution 58: 1195-1208. pdf

 

Inouye, B. D. and P. Tiffin. 2003. Measuring tolerance to herbivory with natural or imposed damage: a reply to Lehtila. Evolution 57: 681-682. pdf

Stinchcombe, J. R., M. T. Rutter, D. S. Burdick, P. Tiffin, M. D. Rausher, and R. Mauricio. 2002. Testing for environmentally induced bias in phenotypic estimates of natural selection: Theory and practice. The American Naturalist 160: 511-523. pdf

Tiffin, P. and M. Hahn. 2002. Coding sequence divergence between two closely related plant species: Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica rapa ssp. perkinenses. Journal of Molecular Evolution 54: 746-753. pdf

Tiffin, P. 2002. Competition and time of damage affect the pattern of selection acting on plant defense against herbivores. Ecology 87: 1981-1990. pdf

Tiffin, P. and B. S. Gaut. 2001. Molecular evolution of the wound induced serine protease inhibitor wip1 in Zea and related taxa. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:2092-2101. pdf

Tiffin, P. and B. S. Gaut. 2001. Sequence diversity in the autotetraploid Zea perennis and the closely related diploid Z. diploperennis: insights from four nuclear loci. Genetics 158: 401- 412. pdf

Tiffin, P., M. S. Olson, and L. C. Moyle. 2001. The genetics of reproductive isolation: asymmetric crossing barriers in Angiosperms. The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 861-867. pdf


1998 - 2000

 

Tiffin, P. 2000. Mechanisms of tolerance to herbivore damage: What do we know? Evolutionary Ecology 14: 523-536. pdf

Tiffin, P. and B. D. Inouye. 2000. Measuring tolerance to herbivory: accuracy and precision of estimates made using natural versus imposed damage. Evolution 54: 1024-1029. pdf

Tiffin, P. 2000. Are tolerance, avoidance and antibiosis evolutionarily and ecologically equivalent responses of plants to herbivores? The American Naturalist 155:128-138. pdf

Tiffin, P. and M. D. Rausher. 1999. Genetic constraints and selection acting on tolerance to herbivory in the common morning glory, Ipomoea purpurea. The American Naturalist 154: 700-716. pdf

Rausher, M. D., R. E. Miller, and P. Tiffin. 1999. Patterns of evolutionary rate variation among genes of the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16: 266-274. pdf

Tiffin, P., R.E. Miller, and M. D. Rausher. 1998. Control of expression patterns of anthocyanin structural genes by two loci in the common morning glory. Genes and Genetic Systems 73:105-110. pdf

Tiffin, P. and O.B. Hesterman. 1998. Response of corn grain yield to early and late killed red clover green manure and subirrigation. Journal of Production Agriculture 11:112-121.