Publications

I am trained as an Evolutionary Biologist and have studied Non-Mendelian Population Genetics and Life History Trait Evolution. As an educator I have published a number of activities for undergraduate classes.

I have been involved in other fun projects (see below).

I am proud that many of my publications involve undergraduate researchers.

STEM Education

Salehi, S., Berk, S., Brunelli, R., Cotner, S., Creech, C., Drake, A. G., Fagbodun, S., Hall, C., Hebert, S., James, A.C., Shuster, M., St. Juliana, J., Stovall, D., Richard, W., Zhong, M., Ballen, C. 2021. Context matters: social psychological factors that underlie academic performance across three institution types. CBE-Life Sciences Education 20(4): ar68.

Odom, S., Boso, H., Bowling, S., Cotner, S., Creech, C., Drake, A. G., Eddy, S., Fagbodun, S., Hebert, S., James, A.C., Just, J., St. Juliana, J., Shuster, M., Thompson, S., Whittington, R., Wills, B., Wilson, A., Zamudio, K., Zhong, M., and C. Ballen, 2021. Meta-analysis of gender performance gaps in undergraduate life science classrooms. CBE-Life Sciences Education. 20, (30): ar46

James, A.C., Velasquez, L. 2016. Peer mentoring in Biology at New Mexico State University: A description and a phylogenetic tree activity. Proceedings of the Peer Lead Team Learning International Society, 2016.

Preszler, R. and A.C. James. 2016. Population Genetics and Behavioral Ecology: Orange, Blue, and Yellow male Uta stansburiana. Article 18 in Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching, Volume 37, (K. McMahon, Editor). Proceedings of the 36th Workshop/Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE).

James, A.C., Clifford, Z., Tenorio, A., Preszler, R., 2015. "Population Biology, Conservation Ecology, and Whooping Cranes: A Lower Division Biology Exercise", Proceedings of the Peer Led Team Learning Conference, 2015, Dallas, Texas.

Wolbachia and Mitochondria DNA population genetics:

Ballard, J.W.O. and A.C. James. 2004. Differential fitness of mitochondrial DNA in perturbation cage studies correlates with global abundance and population history in Drosophila simulans. Proceeding of the Royal Society B. 271 (1544): 1197 – 1201.

James, A.C. and J. W. O. Ballard. 2003. Mitochondrial haplotype affects fitness in Drosophila simulans. Genetics 164:187-194.

James, A.C., M. D. Dean, M. E. McMahon, and J. W. O. Ballard. 2002. Dynamics of double and single Wolbachia infections in Drosophila simulans from New Caledonia. Heredity 88: 182-189.

Ballard, J.W.O., B. Chernoff, and A.C. James. 2002. Divergence of mitochondrial DNA is not corroborated by nuclear DNA, morphology, or behavior in Drosophila simulans. Evolution 56: 527-545.

James, A.C. and J.W.O. Ballard. 2000. Expression of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila simulans and its impact on infection frequencies and distribution of Wolbachia pipientis. Evolution 54: 1661-1672.

Feder, M.E., T.L. Karr, W. Yang, J.M. Hoekstra, and A.C. James. 1999. Interaction of Drosophila and its endosymbiont Wolbachia: natural heat shock and the overcoming of sexual incompatibility. American Zoologist 39: 363-373.

Heneghan, D. A*., I. A. Hansen, W. J. Boecklen, and A. C. James. 2014. Evidence against the presence of Wolbachia in a population of the crayfish species Procambarus clarkia. Advances in Ecology, Article ID 731291, 4 pages.

Life History Trait Evolution:

Ackermann, M., R. Bijlsma, A. C. James, L. Partidge, B. Zwaan, and S.C. Sterns. 2001 Effects of assay conditions in life history experiments with Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14: 119-209.

Zwaan, B.J., R.B.R. Azevedo, A.C. James, J. van ët Land, and L. Partridge. 2000. Cellular basis of body size in Drosophila melanogaster: a comparison of clines on two continents. Heredity. 84: 338-47.

Azevedo, R.B.R., A. C. James, J. McCabe, and L. Partridge. 1998. Thermal evolution of body shape in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 52: 1353-1362.

James, A. C. and L. Partridge. 1998. Latitudinal variation in competitive ability in Drosophila melanogaster. American Naturalist. 151: 530-537.

James, A. C., R. Azevedo, and L. Partridge 1997. Genetic and environmental responses to temperature of field adapted populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 146: 881-890.

James, A. C., R. Azevedo, and L. Partridge. 1995. Cellular basis and developmental timing of a size cline in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 140: 659-666.

James, A. C., and L. Partridge. 1995. Thermal evolution of rate of larval development in Drosophila melanogaster in laboratory and field populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 8:315-330.

X-Linked Meiotic Drive:

James, A.C. and J. Jaenike. 1992. Determinants of mating success in wild Drosophila testacea. Animal Behaviour 44:168-170.

James, A.C. and J. Jaenike. 1990. "Sex ratio" meiotic drive in Drosophila testacea. Genetics 126: 651-656.

Ecology:

Boecklen, W.J., C. T. Yarnes, B. A. Cook, and A. C. James. 2011. On the use of stable isotopes in trophic ecology. Annual Review in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 42:411–40

Jaenike, J. and A.C. James. 1991. Aggregation and the coexistence of mycophagous Drosophila. Journal of Animal Ecology 60: 913-928.

James, A.C., J. Jakubczak, M.P. Riley, and J. Jaenike. 1988. On the causes of monophagy in Drosophila quinaria. Evolution 42: 626-630.

Systematics:

Grimaldi, D., A.C. James, and J. Jaenike. 1993. Systematics and modes of reproductive isolation in the holartic Drosophila testacea species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Annuls of the Entomological Society of America 85: 671-685.