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Vergilino R, Elliott TA, Desjardins-Proulx P, Crease TJ, Dufresne F.  2013.  Evolution of a transposon in Daphnia hybrid genomes. Mobile DNA 4 :e7  

Crease TJ, Omilian AR, Costanzo KS, Taylor DJ.  2012. Transcontinental phylogeography of the Daphnia pulex species complex.  PLoS ONE 7: e46620 

Eagle SHJ, Crease T. 2012.  Copy number variation of ribosomal DNA and Pokey transposons in natural populations of Daphnia. Mobile DNA 3:e4. 

Cristescu ME, Constantin A, Bock DG, Caceres CE, Crease TJ.  2012. Speciation with gene flow and the genetics of habitat transitions.  Molecular Ecology 21:1411-1422. 

Crease TJ, Floyd R, Cristescu M, Innes D. 2011. Evolutionary factors affecting Lactate dehydrogenase A and B variation in the Daphnia pulex species complex.   BMC Evol Biol 11:212. 

Colbourne J, Pfrender M, Gilbert D, + 65 others. 2011. The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex. Science 331:555-561. 

Ambrose C, Crease T. 2011.  Evolution of the nuclear ribosomal DNA 

intergenic spacer in four species of the Daphnia pulex complex.  BMC Genetics 12:13 

Ambrose C, Crease T. 2010.Evolution of repeated sequences in the ribosomal DNA intergenic spacer of 32 arthropod species. J. Molecular Evolution 70:247-259.   

 

McTaggart S, Crease T. 2009. Sequence length variation in the 18S rRNA expansion segment 43/e4 of Daphnia obtusa: ancient or recurring polymorphism? J. Molecular Evolution 69:142-149. 

 

Moszczynska A, Locke S, McLaughlin JD, Marcogliese D, Crease T. 2009. Development of primers for the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I gene in digenetic trematodes (Platyhelminthes) illustrates the challenge of barcoding parasitic helminths. Molecular Ecology Resources 9 (Suppl 1):75-82. 

 

Glass S, Mozczynska A, Crease T. 2008. The effect of transposon Pokeyinsertions on sequence variation in the 28S rRNA gene of Daphnia pulex. Genome 51:988-1000. 

 

Cristescu E, Innes D, Stillman J, Crease T. 2008. D- and L-lactate dehydrogenases during invertebrate evolution. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:268.   

 

Valizadeh P, Crease T. 2008. The association between breeding system and transposable element dynamics in Daphnia pulex. J. Molecular Evolution66:643–654. 

 

McTaggart S, Dudycha J, Omilian A, Crease T. 2007. Rates of recombination in the ribosomal DNA of apomictically propagated Daphnia obtusa lines. Genetics 175:311-320.  

 

deWaard J, Sacherova V, Cristescu M, Remigio E, Crease T, Hebert P. 2006. Probing the origins of the branchiopod crustaceans. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39:491-502. 

 

Weider L, Elser J, Crease T, Mateos M, Cotner J, Markow T. 2005. The functional significance of ribosomal(r)DNA variation: Impacts on the evolutionary ecology of organisms. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 36:219-242.   

 

McTaggart S, Crease T. 2005. Selection on the structural stability of a ribosomal RNA expansion segment in Daphnia obtusa. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22: 1309-1319.   

 

Little T, Colbourne J, Crease T. 2004. Molecular evolution of Daphnia immunity genes: polymorphism in a gram negative binding protein and an alpha-2-macroglobulin. Journal of Molecular Evolution 59: 498-506.   

 

Penton E, Crease T. 2004. Evolution of the transposable element Poke y in the ribosomal DNA of species in the subgenus Daphnia  (Crustacea: Cladocera). Molecular Biology and Evolution 21:1727-1739.   

 

Penton E, Hebert P, Crease T. 2004. Mitochondrial DNA variation in North American populations of Daphnia obtusa: continentalism or cryptic endemism? Molecular Ecology 13:97-107. 

 

Prokopowich C, Gregory T, Crease T. 2003. The correlation between rDNA copy number and genome size in eukaryotes. Genome. 46:48-50. 

 

Simon J-C, Delmotte F, Rispe C, Crease T. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships between parthenogens and their sexual relatives: the possible routes to parthenogenesis in animals. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 79:151-163. 

 

Shufran KA, Mayo ZB, Crease TJ. 2003. Genetic changes within an aphid clone: homogenization of rDNA intergenic spacers after insecticide selection. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 79:101-105. 

 

Penton E, Sullender B, Crease T. 2002. Pokey: a new DNA transposon from Daphnia (Cladocera:Crustacea). J. Mol. Evol. 55:664-673. 

 

Gorokhova, E., T.A. Dowling, T. Crease, L.J. Weider, and J.J. Elser. 2002. Functional and ecological significance of rDNA IGS variation in a clonal organism under divergent selection for production rate. Proc. Roy. Acad. Lond B. 269:2373-2379. 

 

Sullender B, Crease T. 2001. The behavior of a Daphnia pulex transposable element in cyclically and obligately parthenogenetic populations. J. Mol. Evol. 53:63-69. 

 

Crease, T. 1999. The complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Daphnia pulex (Cladocera:Crustacea). Gene 233:89-99. 

 

Fryxell J, Crease T, Illius A. 1999.  Population cycles can maintain foraging polymorphism. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266:1-5. 

 

Taylor D, Crease T, Brown W. 1999. Phylogenetic evidence for a single long-lived clade of crustacean cyclic parthenogens and its implications for the evolution of sex. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266:791-797. 

 

Weider L, Hobaek A, Colbourne J, Crease T, Dufresne F, Hebert P. 1999. Holarctic phylogeny of an asexual species complex. I. Mitochondrial DNA variation in Arctic Daphnia. Evolution 53:777-792. 

 

Weider L, Hobaek A, Hebert P, Crease T. 1999.  Holarctic phylogeny of an asexual species complex. II. Allozyme variation and clonal structure in Arctic Daphnia. Molecular Ecology 8:1-13. 

 

Colbourne J, Crease T, Weider L, Hebert P, Dufresne F, Hobaek A. 1998. Phylogenetics and evolution of a circumarctic species complex (Cladocera: Daphnia pulex). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 65:347-366. 

 

Crease T, Colbourne J. 1998.  Unusually long small subunit ribosomal RNA of the crustacean, Daphnia pulex: sequence and predicted secondary structure. J. of Mol. Evol. 46:307-313. 

 

Crease T, Taylor D. 1998.  The origin and evolution of variable region helices in V4 and V7 of the small subunit ribosomal RNA of branchiopod crustaceans. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15:1430-1446. 

 

Gissing G, Crease T, Middleton A. 1998.  High levels of extra-pair paternity at re-nests in the American goldfinch, Carduelis tristis. Auk 115:230-234. 

 

Jackson T, Ferguson M, Danzmann R, Fishback A, Ihssen P, O'Connell M, Crease T. 1998. Identification of two QTL influencing upper temperature tolerance in three rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) half-sib families. Heredity 80:143-151. 

 

Muller K, Sheath R, Vis M, Crease T, Cole K. 1998.  Biogeography and systematics of Bangia (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) based on the Rubisco spacer, rbcL gene and 18S rRNA gene sequences and morphometric analyses. 1.North America. Phycologia 37:195-207. 

 

Crease T, Little T. 1997. Partial sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the crustacean Daphnia pulex. Current Genetics 31:48-54. 

 

Crease T, Lee S-K, Yu S-L, Spitze K, Lehman N, Lynch M. 1997. Allozyme and mtDNA variation in populations of the Daphnia pulex complex from both sides of the Rocky Mountains. Heredity 79:242-251. 

 

Gissing G, Crease T. 1997.  Chemiluminescent DNA fingerprinting in birds using DIG-labeled minisatellite probes. Can. J. Zool. 75:817-820. 

 

Weider L, Hobæk A, Crease T, Stibor H. 1996.  Molecular characterization of clonal population structure and biogeography of Arctic apomictic Daphnia from Greenland and Iceland. Molecular Ecology 5:107-118. 

 

Wright A-D, Crease T. 1996. Detection of “lost” plasmids from Escherichia coli using excess.ampicillin. Analytical Biochemistry 236:181-182. 

 

Crease T. 1995. Ribosomal DNA evolution at the population level: nucleotide variation in intergenic spacer subrepeat arrays of Daphnia pulex. Genetics 141:1327-1337. 

 

Lehman N, Pfrender M, Morin P, Crease T, Lynch M. 1995.  A hierarchical molecular phylogeny within the genus Daphnia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 4:395- 407. 

 

Van Raay T, Crease T. 1995. Mitochondrial DNA diversity in an apomictic Daphnia complex from the Canadian high arctic. Molecular Ecology 4:149-161. 

 

Barrette R, Crease T, Hebert P, Via S. 1994.  Mitochondrial DNA diversity in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum Genome 37:858-865. 

 

Van Raay T, Crease T. 1994.  Partial mitochondrial DNA sequence of the crustacean,Daphnia pulex. Current Genetics 25:66-72. 

 

Crease, T. 1993. Sequence of the intergenic spacer between the 28S and 18S rRNA-encoding genes of the crustacean, Daphnia pulex. gene 134:245-249. 

 

Crease, T.J. and M. Lynch. 1991.  Ribosomal DNA variation in Daphnia pulex reproducing by cyclic and obligate parthenogenesis. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 8:620-640. 

 

Stanton, D., T. Crease and P.D.N. Hebert. 1991. Cloning and characterization of the Daphnia mitochondrial genome. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 33:152-155. 

 

Crease, T., M. Lynch and K. Spitze. 1990. Hierarchical analysis of isozyme and mitochondrial DNA variation in Daphnia pulex. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 7:444-458. 

 

Lynch, M. and T. Crease 1990.  The analysis of population survey data on DNA sequence variation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 7:377-394. 

 

Lynch, M., K. Spitze and T. Crease. 1989. The distribution of life history variation in the Daphnia pulex complex. Evolution. 43:1724-1736. 

 

Crease, T., D. Stanton and P.D.N. Hebert. 1989. Polyphyletic origin of asexuality in Daphnia pulex. II. Mitochondrial DNA variation. Evolution. 43:1016-1026. 

 

Templeton, A.R., T.J. Crease and F. Shah. 1985. The molecular through ecological genetics of abnormal abdomen. I. Basic genetics. Genetics 111:805-818. 

 

Hebert, P.D.N. and T.J. Crease. 1983.  Clonal diversity in populations of Daphnia pulex reproducing by obligate parthenogenesis. Heredity 51:353-369. 

 

Crease, T.J. and P.D.N. Hebert. 1983.  A test for the production of sexual pheromones by Daphnia magna. Freshwater Biology 13:491-496. 

 

Hebert, P.D.N., D.C. Ferrari and T.J. Crease. 1981. Heterosis in Daphnia: a reassessment. Amer. Nat. 119:427-434. 

 

Hebert, P.D.N. and T.J. Crease. 1980. Clonal coexistence in Daphnia pulex Leydig: another planktonic paradox. Science 207:1363-1365.

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