Heil J, Simler-Williamson A, Striluk M, Trawick D, Capezza R, DeFehr C, Osorio A, Finney B, Turner KG, Bittleston L. 2025. Weather and leaf age separately contribute to temporal shifts in phyllosphere fungal community structure in sagebrush. Ecosphere 16(6): e70295. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70295. [PRE-PRINT] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.21.600104v1.abstract 

Gamba D, et al. 2024. Local adaptation to climate facilitates a global invasion. (In review). [PRE-PRINT] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11429938/ 

Monroe JG, Gill B, Turner KG, Mckay J. 2024. Convergent discoveries support convergent evolution of life-history strategies: The importance of summer drought. New Phytologist, 241(2), 535–537. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19351

 McGaughran A, Dhami MK, Parvizi E, Vaughan AL, Gleeson DM, Hodgins KA, Rollins LA, Tepolt CK, Turner KG, … Wilson, J. 2024. Genomic tools in biological invasions: Current state and future frontiers. Genome Biology and Evolution, 16 (1), evad230. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad230

Turner, K. G., Ostevik, K. L., Grassa, C. J., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2021). Genomic analyses of phenotypic differences between native and invasive populations of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.577635.  [Partial PRE-PRINT] bioRxivdoi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/005900 [supplementary materials] [GenBank accession]

Turner, K. G., Lorts, C. M., Haile, A. T., & Lasky, J. R. (2020). Effects of genomic and functional diversity on stand-level productivity and performance of non-native Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1937), 20202041. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2041. [PRE-PRINT] bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.20.049593 

Hedrick, BP, Heberling, JM, Meineke, EK, Turner, KG, Grassa, CJ, Park, DS, … Davis, CC. (2020). Digitization and the Future of Natural History Collections. BioScience. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biz163.

Lopez L, Turner KG, Bellis ES, & Lasky JR. 2020. Genomics of natural history collections for understanding evolution in the wild. Molecular Ecology Resources, 20(5), 1153–1160. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13245

Rosche, C., Hensen, I., Schaar, A.,  …Turner KG, …Shah, M. A. (2019). Climate outweighs native vs. nonnative range-effects for genetics and common garden performance of a cosmopolitan weed. Ecological Monographs, e01386. doi: 10.1002/ecm.1386

Monroe JG, Gill B, Turner KG, McKay JK. Drought regimens predict life history strategies in Heliophila. New Phytologist. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nph.15919

Endriss SB, Vahsen ML, Bitume EV, Monroe JG, Turner KG, Norton AP, Hufbauer RA. 2019. The importance of growing up: Juvenile environment influences dispersal of individuals and their neighbours. Ecology Letters 22: 45–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13166

Turner KG, Huang DI, Cronk QCB, Rieseberg LH. 2018. Homogenization of populations in the wildflower Texas bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis). Journal of Heredity 109: 152–161. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx094

Turner KG, Nurkowski KA, Rieseberg LH. 2017. Gene expression and drought response in an invasive thistle. Biological Invasions 19(3), 875-893, doi:10.1007/s10530-016-1308-x [GitHub repo] [Data

Turner KG, Fréville H, Rieseberg LH. 2015. Adaptive plasticity and niche expansion in an invasive thistle. Ecology and Evolution, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1599. [GitHub repo] [Data]

Hodgins KA, Bock DG, Hahn MA, Heredia SM, Turner KG, Rieseberg LH. 2015. Comparative genomics in the Asteraceae reveal little evidence for parallel evolutionary change in invasive taxa. Molecular Ecology, doi: 10.1111/mec.13026. [GitHub repo]

Bock DG, Caseys C, Cousens RD, Hahn MA, Heredia SM, Hubner S, Turner KG, Whitney KD, Rieseberg LH. 2015. What we still don’t know about invasion genetics. Molecular Ecology, doi: 10.1111/mec.13032.

Turner KG, Hufbauer RA, Rieseberg LH. 2014. Rapid evolution of an invasive weed. New Phytologist 202: 309–321. DOI: 10.1111/nph.12634. [pdf] [supplementary materials] [GitHub repos: 1 and 2]

Lai, Z., Kane, N., Kozik, A., Hodgins, K., Dlugosch, K., Barker, M., Matvienko, M., Yu, Q., Turner, K.G.,  Pearl, S., Bell, G., Zou, Y., Grassa, C., Guggisberg, A., Adams, K., Anderson, J., Horvath, D., Kesseli, R., Burke, J., Michelmore, R., and Rieseberg, L.H. 2012. Genomics of Compositae weeds: EST libraries, microarrays, and evidence of introgression. Am. J. Bot. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1100313

Mohr G, Del Campo M, Turner KG et al. 2011. High-Throughput Genetic Identification of Functionally Important Regions of the Yeast DEAD-Box Protein Mss116p. Journal of Molecular Biology, 413, 952–972. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2011.09.015

Gross, B.L., Turner, K.G., and Rieseberg, L.H. 2007. “Selective sweeps in the homoploid hybrid species Helianthus deserticola: Evolution in concert across populations and across origins.” Molecular Ecology. 16: 5246-5258. (Work experience). doi:  10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03574.x

Barber, J.C., Francisco-Ortega, J., Santos-Guerra, A., Turner, K.G., and Jansen, R.K. 2002. “Origin of Macaronesian Sideritis L. (Lamioideae: Lamiaceae) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast sequence datasets.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23: 293 – 306. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00018-0

Turner KG, Moyers BT, Schell CJ. 2018. Editorial: Genomics of adaptation to human contexts. Journal of Heredity 109: 101–102. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx113

Turner KG. 2015. Ecological genomics of invasive thistle, diffuse knapweed. Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia. https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/54317

Turner KG, Price S. 2005. Fighting the Invasion: Salt Cedar at Cibola National Wildlife Refuge. US Fish and Wildlife Service. Pamphlet.

Grinath, JB, Kerner P, Turner KG, Reinhardt K, Finney BP, Lohse KA. 2024. Ecological memory effects on plants and soils in early post-fire steppe, Barton Ecological Research Area, Pocatello, Idaho, 2021 ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/20ade71f03bb85bf0ad466b77f2cad9b 

Turner KG, Ostevik KL, Grassa CJ, Rieseberg LH. 2020. Genomic analyses of phenotypic differences between native and invasive populations of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa)

• [DATA] Reduced representation sequence data from Centaurea diffusa individuals, BioProject. Accession: PRJNA681918. Available online at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA681918/ 

• Dryad, Dataset. Available online at: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bvq83bk79

Turner KG, Huang DI, Cronk QCB, Rieseberg LH. 2018. Data from: Homogenization of populations in the wildflower Texas bluebonnet (Lupinus texensis). https://borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP2/4GXAW7  

Turner KG, Nurkowski K, Rieseberg LH. 2017. Data from: Gene expression and drought response in an invasive thistle. https://borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.5683%2FSP2%2F9NM227 

Turner KG, Fréville H, Rieseberg LH. 2015. Data from: Adaptive plasticity and niche expansion in an invasive thistle. https://borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP2/C3KLLL

Turner KG. 2015. [DATA] Whole genome sequencing of Centaurea diffusa: native individual from Turkey. 1 Illumina HiSeq 2000 run: 69.6M spots, 13.9G bases, 8Gb downloads. Accession: SRX1355843. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/SRX1355843[accn]

Turner KG, Grassa CJ. 2014. Complete plastid genome assembly of invasive plant, Centaurea diffusa 

• [DATA] Centaurea diffusa chloroplast, complete genome. NCBI GenBank. Accession: KJ690264.1. Available online at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KJ690264

• Supplementary Files. figshare. Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1044306 

Lai Z, Kane NC, Kozik A, Hodgins KA, Dlugosch KM, Barker MS, Matvienko M, Yu Q, Turner KG, Pearl SA. 2012. Data from: Genomics of Compositae weeds: EST libraries, microarrays, and evidence of introgression. https://borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.5683%2FSP2%2FJTYLIF 

Highlighted in Idaho Diversity Network newsletter, available at https://mcusercontent.com/f439baa444daa1a307d2c0694/files/2cbb0463-fb9b-ea5e-e004-70946b2d1ebc/SACNAS2023.01.pdf

Seed Grant feature, Idaho EPSCoR Newsletter, https://www.idahoepscor.org/sites/default/files/newsletters/2023_epscorAprNwsltr.pdf

Faculty feature, Idaho EPSCoR Newsletter, https://www.idahoepscor.org/sites/default/files/newsletters/2022_epscorOctNwsltr.pdf.

Interviewed for Nature of Idaho podcast, https://www.kisu.org/podcast/the-nature-of-idaho/2022-09-14/invasive-plants

Interviewed for web article with Science Friday 5/19/2021: https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/saving-sagebrush/

Contributing blogger for The Molecular Ecologist (rarely, ongoing)

Press about Cheerios, bees, and non-native plants: 

• Print: Washington Post http://wapo.st/2mSdrq2, Times of London http://bit.ly/2phN7Fy, LifeHacker http://bit.ly/2mbZoLy, CountryLiving http://bit.ly/2phYblU, The Ryersonian 4/10/2017

• Radio: KABC Los Angeles McIntyre In the Morning 3/22/2017

• TV: 9News Denver http://on9news.tv/2pJVWJx, Fox31 Denver 4/26/2017

Author, Crossflower: Genomic history of a plant invasion project website describing herbarium genomics work with Chorispora tenella (ongoing)

Science Card Game Designer for Phylo: The Trading Card Game. Focused on historical women in STEM fields.

Author, Alien Plantation, a blog about invasion biology, ethnobotany, ecology and evolution (rarely, ongoing)