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Handelman, C, JR Kohn. 2012. Hummingbird color preference within a natural hybrid population of Mimulus aurantiacus (Phrymaceae). Plant Species Biology doi: 10.1111/j.1442-1984.2012.00393.x

Biliniski, P, JR Kohn. 2012. Sites of self-pollen tube inhibition in Papaveraceae (sensu lato). Plant Systematics and Evolution 98: 1239-1247.

Paape T, T Miyake T, N Takebayashi N, D Wolf D and JR Kohn JR. 2011. Evolutionary genetics of an S-Like polymorphism in Papaveraceae with putative function in self-incompatibility. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23635. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023635

Paape T, JR Kohn. 2011. Differential strengths of selection on S-RNases from Physalis and Solanum (Solanaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 243 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-243

Goldberg E, JR Kohn, R Lande, KA Robertson, SA Smith and B Igic. 2010. Species selection maintains self-incompatibility. Science 330: 493-495.

Newbigin E, T Paape and JR Kohn. 2008. RNase-based self-incompatibility: puzzled by pollen S. Plant Cell 20:2286-2292.

Kohn JR. 2008. What genealogies of S-alleles tell us. Pp. 103-121 in Self-Incompatibility in Flowering Plants VE Franklin-Tong Ed., Springer-Verlag,, Berlin

Igic B, R. Lande R and JR Kohn. 2008. Loss of self-incompatibility and its evolutionary consequences. International Journal of Plant Science 169:93-104.

Paape T, B Igic, SD Smith, R Olmstead, L Bohs and JR Kohn 2008. A 15-Myr-old genetic bottleneck Molecular Biology & Evolution 25:655-663.

Igic B, WA Smith, KA Robertson, BA Schaal BA and JR Kohn. 2007. Studies of self-incompatibility in wild tomatoes: I. Sallele diversity in Solanum chilense Dun. (Solanaceae) Heredity 99:553-561, 2007


Raspe O. and JR Kohn. 2007. Population structure at the S-locus of Sorbus aucuparia. Molecular Ecology 16:1315-1325.

Streisfeld, MA, and JR Kohn. 2007. Environment and pollinator-mediated selection on parapatric floral races of Mimulus aurantiacus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (in press). (Research Highlights, Nature 443:484, 2006)

Igic B, and JR Kohn. 2006. The distribution of plant mating systems: study bias against obligately outcrossing species. Evolution 60: 1098-1103

Igic, B, L Bohs, and JR Kohn. 2006. Molecular fossils reveal unidirectional breeding system shifts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103:1359-1363.

Streisfeld, MA, and JR Kohn. 2005. Contrasting patterns of floral and molecular variation across a cline in Mimulus aurantiacus. Evolution 59:2548-2559.


Yeung K., JS Miller, AE Savage, BC Husband, B Igic and JR Kohn. 2005 Association of ploidy and sexual system in Lycium californicum (Solanaceae). Evolution 59: 2048-55.

Ikeda K, B Igic, K Ushijima, H Yamane, NR Hauck, R Nakano, H Sassa, AF Iezzoni, JR Kohn, and R Tao. 2004. Primary structural features of the S haplotype-specific F-box protein, SFB, in Prunus. Sexual Plant Reproduction 16: 235-243.

Igic, B, L Bohs, and JR Kohn. 2003. Historical inferences from the self-incompatibility locus. New Phytologist 161: 97-105.


Fetscher, AE, Ruppert, SM and JR Kohn. 2002. Hummingbird foraging position is altered by the touch-sensitive stigma of bush monkeyflower. Oecologia 33:551-558.


Raspe, O. and JR Kohn. 2002. The number of S-alleles in natural populations of Sorbus acuparia and Crataegus monogyna (Rosaceae). Heredity. 88:458-465.

Igic, B. and JR Kohn. 2001. Evolutionary relationships among self-incompatibility RNases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98:13167-13171.

Fetscher, AE. Resolution of male-female conflict in an hermaphroditic flower. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B. 268:525-529.

Richman, AD and JR Kohn. 2000. Evolutionary genetics of self-incompatibility in the Solanaceae. Plant Molecular Biology 42:169-179.

Fetscher, AE and JR Kohn. 1999 Stigma behavior in Mimulus aurantiacus (Scrophulariaceae). Amererican Jounal of Botany 86:1130-1135.

Richman, AD and JR Kohn. 1999 Self-incompatibility alleles from Physalis: Implications for historical inference from balanced polymorphisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 96:168-172.

Richman, AD and JR Kohn. 1998. S-allelic diversity in the genus Physalis: implications for historical inference. Pages 147-161 in Symposium Proceedings of the NSF Trinational Workshop on Molecular Evolution  (M.K. Uyenoyama and A. von Haeseler, eds.). Duke University Publications Group, Duke University, Durham NC.

Graham, SW, JR Kohn, BR Morton and SCH Barrett. 1998. Phylogenetic congruence and discordance among one morphological and three molecular data-sets from Pontederiaceae. Systematic Biology 47:545-567.

Kohn, JR, N Leyva, R Dossey, BWS. Sobral, H Morishima. 1997. Quantitative trait locus analysis of trait variation among annual and perennial ecotypes of Oryza rufipogon. International Rice Research Notes 22:4-5.

Richman, AD, W Broothaerts and JR Kohn. 1997. Self-incompatibility RNases from three plant families: homology or convergence? Amererican Jounal of Botany 84:912-917.

Bensch, S, T Price, and J Kohn. 1997. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in a Phylloscopus warbler. Molecular Ecology 6:91-92.

Richman, AD and JR Kohn. 1996. Learning from rejection: the evolutionary biology of single-locus self-incompatibility. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11:497-502.

Richman, AD, MK Uyenoyama and JR Kohn. 1996. Contrasting patterns of allelic diversity and gene genealogy at the self-incompatibility locus in two species of Solanaceae. Science 273:1212-1216.

Richman, AD, MK Uyenoyama and JR Kohn. 1996. S-allele diversity in a natural population of Physalis crassifolia (Solanaceae) (ground cherry) assessed by RT-PCR. Heredity 76:497-505.

Novella, IS, M Cilnis, SF Elena, JR Kohn, A Moya, E Domingo, and JJ Holland. 1996. Large population passages of vesicular stomatits virus in interferon-treated cells select variants of only limited resistance.
Journal of Virology 70:6414-6417.

Kohn, JR, SW Graham, B Morton, JJ Doyle and SCH. Barrett. 1996. Reconstruction of the evolution of reproductive characters in the Pontederiaceae using phylogenetic evidence from chloroplast DNA restriction-site variation. Evolution 50:1454-1469.

Kohn, JR and JE Biardi. 1995. Outcrossing rates and inferred levels of inbreeding depression in gynodioecious Cucurbita foetidissima (Cucurbitaceae). Heredity 75:77-83.

Kohn, JR and SCH. Barrett. 1994. Pollen discounting and the spread of a selfing variant in tristylous Eichhornia paniculata: evidence from experimental populations. Evolution 48:1576-1594.

Kohn, JR and SCH. Barrett. 1992. Experimental studies on the adaptive significance of heterostyly. Evolution 46:43-55.

Kohn, JR and SCH Barrett. 1992. Floral manipulations reveal the cause of male fitness variation in experimental populations of Eichhornia paniculata (Pontederiaceae). Functional Ecology 6:590-595.

Kohn, JR and BB Casper. 1992. Pollen mediated gene flow in Cucurbita foetidissima (Cucurbitaceae). Amererican Jounal of Botany 79:57-62.

Barrett, SCH., JR Kohn and MB Cruzan. 1992. Experimental studies of mating-system evolution: the marriage of marker genes and floral biology. In: Evolution and Ecology of Plant Reproduction: New Approaches, R. Wyatt (ed.), Chapman and Hall, NY.

Barrett, SCH. and JR Kohn. 1991. Genetic and evolutionary consequences of small population size in plants: implications for conservation. In: Conservation of Rare Plants: Biology and Genetics, D.A. Falk and K.E. Holsinger (eds.), Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, pp. 3-30.

Kohn, JR. 1989. Sex ratio, seed production, biomass allocation, and the cost of male function in Cucurbita foetidissima. Evolution 43:1424-1434.

Kohn, JR. 1988. Why be female? Nature 335:431-433.

Kohn, JR and NM Waser. 1985. The effect of Delphinium nelsonii pollen on seed set in Ipomopsis aggregata, a competitor for hummingbird pollination. Amererican Jounal of Botany 72:1144-1148.