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Kathryn G. Turner
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Centaurea diffusa and Chorispora tenella. Mayan-stylized glyph art by Monarobot.
Peer-reviewed
Turner, K. G., Ostevik, K. L., Grassa, C. J., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2020). 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.
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
NOn-Peer-reviewed
Lopez, L., Turner, K. G., Bellis, E. S., & Lasky, J. R. (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
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.
science communication
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)
Header image: Centaurea diffusa common garden experiment, greenhouses, University of British Columbia.