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Taylor, D. J. and Barnhart, M. H. 2024. Genomic transfers help to decipher the ancient evolution of filoviruses and interactions with vertebrate hosts. PLOS Pathogens​.

Ballinger, M. J.,  Christian, L. C., Moore, L. D.,  Taylor, D. J. and Sabet, A.  2022. Evolution and diversity of inherited viruses in the Nearctic phantom midge, Chaoborus americanus.  Virus Evolution. 8: (1), veac018

Kotov, A. A. and Taylor, D. J. 2022. Daphnia japonica sp. nov. (Crustacea: Cladocera) an eastern Palearctic montane species with mitochondrial discordance. PeerJ 10:e14113 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14113 PDF 

Kim, K. and Taylor, D. J. 2022. Thermal phenotypic plasticity of the second limb in Daphnia. Journal of Plankton Research fbac003, https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbac003 PDF 

Karabanov, D. P.,  Bekker, E. I., Garibian, P. G.,  Shiel, R. J., Kobayashi, T., Taylor, D. J.  and Kotov, A. A. 2022 Multiple Recent Colonizations of the Australian Region by the Chydorus sphaericus Group (Crustacea: Cladocera). Water 14(4), 594; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14040594.

Salmela, J, Harma, O., and Taylor, D. J.  2021. Chaoborus flavicans Meigen (Diptera, Chaoboridae) is a complex of lake and pond dwelling species: a revision. Zootaxa 4927 (2): 151–196. PDF 

Garibian P.G., Karabanov D.P., Neretina A.N., Taylor D.J., and Kotov A.A. 2021. Bosminopsis deitersi (Crustacea: Cladocera) as an ancient species group: a revision. PeerJ 9:e11310 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11310 PDF

Kotov, A. A.,  Garibian, P. G.,  Bekker, E. I.,  Taylor, D. J., and Karabanov, D. P.  2021. A new species group from the Daphnia curvirostris species complex (Cladocera: Anomopoda) from the eastern Palaearctic: taxonomy, phylogeny and phylogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191: 772–822. PDF 

Taylor, D. J., Connelly, S. J. and Kotov, A. A. 2020. The Intercontinental phylogeography of neustonic daphniids. Scientific Reports 10, Article number: 1818 . PDF

Garibian, P. G.,  Neretina, A. N.,  Taylor, D. J. and Kotov, A. A. 2020. Partial revision of the neustonic genus Scapholeberis Schoedler, 1858 (Crustacea: Cladocera): decoding of the barcoding results. PeerJ 8:e10410 PDF 

Ballinger, M. J. and Taylor, D. J. 2019. Evolutionary persistence of insect bunyavirus infection despite host acquisition and expression of the viral nucleoprotein gene. Virus Evolution 5(2): vez017.  PDF

Zuykova, E. I. , Bochkarev, N. A., Taylor, D. J. and Kotov, A. A. 2019. Unexpected endemism in the Daphnia longispina complex (Crustacea: Cladocera) in Southern Siberia. PLoS ONE 14(9): e0221527. PDF

Kotov, A. A. and Taylor, D. J. 2019. Contrasting endemism in pond-dwelling cyclic parthenogens: the Daphnia curvirostris species group (Crustacea: Cladocera). Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 6812.  PDF

Edwards, M.R., Liu, H., Shabman, R.S., Ginell, G.M., Luthra, P., Ramanan, P., Keefe, L.J., Kollner, B., Amarasinghe, G.K., Taylor,D.J., Leung, D.W. and Basler, C.F.  2018. Conservation of structure and immune antagonist functions indicate functional cooption of filoviral VP35 homologues present in microbat genomes. Cell Reports 24: 861–872.e6.  PDF

Warner B.E., Ballinger M.J., Yerramsetty P., Reed J., Taylor D.J., Smith T.J., and Bruenn J.A. 2018. Cellular production of a counterfeit viral protein confers immunity to infection by a related virus. PeerJ 6:e5679 PDF

 

Zuykova, E. I. , Simonov, E. P., Bochkarev, N. A., Taylor, D. J. and Kotov, A. A. 2018. Resolution of the Daphnia umbra problem (Crustacea: Cladocera) using an integrated taxonomic approach. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. ZLY15  PDF

 

Ballinger, M. J., Medeiros, A. S. Qin, J. and Taylor, D. J. 2017. Unexpected differences in the population genetics of phasmavirids (Bunyavirales) from subarctic ponds. Virus Evolution 3 (1): vex015.  PDF

 

 

Kotov, A. A., Karabanov, D.P., Bekker, E.I., Neretina, T.V., and Taylor, D. J. 2016. Phylogeography of the Chydorus sphaericus group (Cladocera: Chydoridae) in the Northern Palearctic. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0168711 PDF

 

 

E.V. Popova, Petrusek, A, Korinek, V. , Mergeay, J. , Bekker, E.I., Karabanov, D.P., Galimov, Y., Neretina, T.V.,

Taylor, D. J., and Kotov, A. A. 2016.  Revision of the Old World Daphnia (Ctenodaphnia) similis group Cladocera: Daphniidae). Zootaxa 4161 (1), 1-40 PDF 

 

 

Rupert, C. B. Heltzel, J.M.H., Taylor, D. J., and Rusche, L. N. 2016. Sporadic gene loss after duplication is associated with functional divergence of sirtuin deacetylases among Candida yeast species. G3: Genes| Genomes| Genetics 6 (10), 3297-3305.  PDF

 

 

Taylor, D. J., Ballinger, M. J., Medeiros, A. S., and Kotov, A. A. 2016. Climate-associated tundra thaw pond formation and range expansion of boreal zooplankton predators. Ecography 39: 43-53. PDF supplementary files

 

Medeiros, A.S., Taylor, D.J., Couse, M., Hall, R.I., Quinlan, R. and Wolfe, B.B. 2014. Biologic and nutrient responses to catchment disturbance and warming in small lakes near the Alaskan tundra-taiga boundary. The Holocene 24:1308-1319. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J., Ballinger, M. J., Zhan, J. J., Hanzly, L. E., and Bruenn, J. A. 2014. Evidence that ebolaviruses and cuevaviruses have been diverging from marburgviruses since the Miocene. PeerJ 2:e556 PDF 

NYTimes article by Carl Zimmer

 

Ballinger, M. J., Bruenn, J. A., Hay, J., Czechowski, D., & Taylor, D. J. 2014. Discovery and evolution of bunyavirids in arctic phantom midges and ancient bunyavirid-like sequences in insect genomes. Journal of Virology 88: 8783-8794. PDF 

 

Kotov, A. A. & Taylor, D. J. 2014. Daphnia lumholtzi Sars, 1885 (Cladocera: Daphniidae) invades Argentina. Journal of Limnology 73: 369-374. PDF

 

Ballinger, M. J., Bruenn, J. A., Kotov, A. A., & Taylor, D. J. 2013. Selectively maintained paleoviruses in Holarctic water fleas reveal an ancient origin for phleboviruses. Virology 446: 276-282. PDF PDF with supplementary files

 

Taylor, D. J., Ballinger, M. J., Bowman, S. M., & Bruenn, J. A. 2013. Virus-host co-evolution under a modified genetic code. PeerJ 1:e50 PDF    Essay by Carl Zimmer

 

Crease, T. J., Omilian, A. R., Costanzo, K. S., & Taylor, D. J. 2012. Transcontinental Phylogeography of the Daphnia pulex species complex. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46620. PDF

 

Ballinger, M. J., Bruenn, J. A., & Taylor, D. J. 2012. Phylogeny, integration and expression of sigma virus-like genes in Drosophila. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 251-258. PDF

 

Bekker, E. I., Kotov, A. A., & Taylor, D. J. 2012. A revision of the subgenus Eurycercus (Eurycercus) Baird, 1843 emend. nov. (Cladocera: Eurycercidae) in the Holarctic with the description of a new species from Alaska. Zootaxa 3206:1-40. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J., Dittmar, K., Ballinger, M. J., & Bruenn, J. A. 2011. Evolutionary maintenance of filovirus-like genes in bat genomes. BMC Evolutionary biology 11:336. PDF

 

Faustová, M., Sacherová, V., Svensson, J.-E., & Taylor, D. J. 2011. Radiation of European Eubosmina (Cladocera) from Bosmina (E.) longispina -- concordance of multipopulation molecular data with paleolimnology. Limnol. Oceanogr., 56(2): 440–450. PDF

 

Kotov, A. A., & Taylor, D. J. 2011. Mesozoic fossils (>145 Mya) suggest the antiquity of the subgenera of Daphnia and their coevolution with chaoborid predators. BMC Evolutionary biology 11:129. PDF

 

Faustová, M., Sacherová, V., Sheets, H.D., Svensson, J.-E., & Taylor, D. J. 2010. Coexisting cyclic parthenogens comprise a Holocene species flock in Eubosmina. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11623. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J., Leach, R. W., & Bruenn, J. 2010. Filoviruses are ancient and integrated into mammalian genomes. BMC Evolutionary biology 10:193. PDF Science Magazine News

 

Costanzo, K.S., & Taylor, D. J. 2010. Rapid ecological isolation and intermediate genetic divergence in lacustrine cyclic parthenogens. BMC Evolutionary biology 10:166. PDF

 

Kotov, A. A., & Taylor, D. J. 2010. A new African lineage of the Daphnia obtusa group (Cladocera: Daphniidae) disrupts continental vicariance patterns. Journal of Plankton Research 32:937-949. PDF

 

Albert, V. A. , Jobson, R. W., Michael, T. P,  & Taylor, D. J. 2010. The carnivorous bladderwort (Utricularia, Lentibulariaceae): a system inflates. Journal of Experimental Botany 61:5–9. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J. & Bruenn, J. 2009. The evolution of novel fungal genes from non-retroviral RNA viruses. BMC Biology 7:88. PDF Commentary by Eugene Koonin

 

Kotov, A. A., Ishida, S., & Taylor, D. J. 2009.  Revision of the genus Bosmina Baird, 1845 (Cladocera: 

Bosminidae), based on evidence from male morphological characters and molecular phylogenies.  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156: 1–51. With 27 figures. PDF

 

Belyaeva, M. & Taylor, D. J. 2009. Cryptic species within the Chydorus sphaericus species complex (Crustacea: Cladocera) revealed by molecular markers and sexual stage morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50: 534-546. PDF

 

Dupuis, D. D., Svensson, J.-E., & Taylor, D. J. 2008. The cryptic origins of environment-indicating phantom midges (Chaoborus). Limnol. Oceanogr., 53. 236–243. PDF

 

Ishida, S., & Taylor, D. J.  2007. Mature habitats associated with genetic divergence despite strong dispersal ability in an arthropod. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:52. PDF

 

Ishida, S., & Taylor, D. J.  2007. Quaternary diversification in a Holarctic sexual zooplankter, Daphnia galeata. Molecular Ecology 16:569-582. PDF

 

Yin, L-P., Li, P., Wen, B., Taylor, D. & Berry J. O. 2007. Characterization and expression of a high-affinity nitrate system transporter gene (TaNRT2.1) from wheat roots, and its evolutionary relationship to other NTR2 genes. Plant Science 172:621-631. PDF

 

Kotov, A. A., Ishida, S.,  & Taylor, D. J. 2006. A new species in the Daphnia curvirostris (Crustacea: Cladocera) complex from the eastern Palearctic with molecular phylogenetic evidence for the independent origin of neckteeth. Journal of Plankton Research. 28: 1067-1079. PDF

 

Kim, K., Kotov, A. A. & Taylor, D. J. 2006. Hormonal induction of undescribed males resolves cryptic species of cladocerans. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences. 273: 141-147. Cover PDF Research focus in Trends in Ecology and Evolution

 

Ishida, S., Kotov, A. A. & Taylor, D. J. 2006. A new divergent lineage of Daphnia (Cladocera: Anomopoda) and its morphological and genetical differentiation from Daphnia curvirostris Eylmann, 1887. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 146: 385-405. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J., Sprenger, H. L., & Ishida, S.  2005. Geographic and phylogenetic evidence for dispersed introgression in a daphniid with sexual propagules. Molecular Ecology 14: 525-537. PDF Appendix

 

Taylor, D. J. & Piel, W. H. 2004. An assessment of accuracy, error, and conflict with support values from genome-scale phylogenetic data. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21: 1534-1537. PDF

 

Robert M. Givens, R. M., Lin, M-H., Taylor, D. J.,  Mechold, U.,  Berry, J. O. & Hernandez, V. J. 2004. Inducible expression, enzymatic activity, and origin of higher plant homologues of bacterial RelA/SpoT stress proteins in Nicotiana tabacum. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 7495-7504.

 

Haney, R. A. & Taylor, D. J. 2003. Testing paleolimnological predictions with molecular data: the origins of Holarctic Eubosmina. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. PDF

 

Sanchez, J. A., Lasker, H. R. & Taylor, D. J. 2003.  Phylogenetic analyses among octocorals (Cnidaria): mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences (lsu-rRNA, 16S and ssu-rRNA, 18S) support two convergent clades of branching gorgonians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29: 31-42. PDF

 

Swain, T. D. & Taylor, D. J. 2003. Structural rRNA characters support monophyly of raptorial limbs and paraphyly of limb specialization in water fleas. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 270: 887-896.  PDF Structure files (BBedit or word pad)

 

Taylor, D. J., Ishikane, C. R., & Haney, R. A. 2002. The systematics of Holarctic bosminids and a revision that reconciles molecular and morphological evolution. Limnol. Oceanogr. 47: 1486-1495. PDF

 

Santos, S. R., Taylor D. J., Kinzie III, R. A., Sakai K, & Coffroth, M. A. 2002. Evolution of length variation and heteroplasmy in the chloroplast rDNA of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium, Dinophyta) and a novel insertion in the universal core region of the large subunit rDNA. Phycologia 41(4): 311-318.

 

Santos, S. R., Taylor, D. J., Kinzie III, R. A., Hidaka, M., Sakai, K., & Coffroth, M. A. 2002. Molecular phylogeny of symbiotic dinoflagellates inferred from chloroplast large subunit 23S-rDNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23: 97-111. PDF

 

Hebert, P. D. N., Remigio, E. A., Colbourne, J. C., Taylor, D. J. & Wilson, C. C. 2002. Accelerated molecular evolution in halophilic crustaceans. Evolution 56: 909-926. PDF

 

Omilian, A. R. & Taylor, D. J. 2001. Rate acceleration and long-branch attraction in a conserved gene of cryptic daphniid (Crustacea) species. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:2201-2212. PDF

 

Santos S. R., Taylor, D. J. & Coffroth, M. A. 2001. Genetic comparisons of freshly isolated vs. cultured symbiotic dinoflagellates: implications for extrapolating to the intact symbiosis. J. Phycology 37: 900-912.

 

Feng, J.,  Lajia, C., Taylor, D.J. & Webster, M. S. 2001. Genetic distinctiveness of endangered dwarf blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur schaeferi): Evidence from mitochondrial control region and Y-linked ZFY intron sequences.  J. Heredity 92: 9-15. PDF

 

O’Foighil, D. & Taylor, D. J. 2000. Evolution of parental care and ovulation behavior in oysters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 15: 301-313. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J. &O’Foighil, D.  2000. Transglobal comparisons of nuclear and mitochondrial genetic structure in the marine asexual polyploid clam (Lasaea, Lasaeidae). Heredity 84: 321-330. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J., Crease, T. J. & Brown, W. M. 1999. Phylogenetic evidence for a single long-lived clade of crustacean cyclic parthenogens and its implications for the evolution of sex. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 266: 791-797. PDF

 

Hebert, P. D. N., Um, Y. M., Prokopowich, C. D. & Taylor, D. J. 1999. Gene conversion and evolution of daphniid hemoglobins (Crustacea, Cladocera). Journal of Molecular Evolution 49: 769-779. PDF

 

Crease, T. J. & Taylor, D. J. 1998. The origin and evolution of expansion segments in V4 and V7 of the small subunit ribosomal RNA of branchiopod crustaceans. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15: 1430-1446. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J., Finston, T. L., & Hebert, P. D. N. 1998. Biogeography of a widespread freshwater crustacean: pseudocongruence and cryptic endemism in the North American Daphnia laevis complex. Evolution 52: 1648-1670. PDF

 

Little, T.J. Demelo, R. Taylor, D. J. & Hebert P. D. N. 1997. Genetic characterization of an arctic zooplankter - insights into geographic polyploidy. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) - Series B: 264: 1363-1370. PDF

 

Hebert, P. D. N.  & Taylor, D. J. 1997. The future of cladoceran genetics: methodologies and targets. Hydrobiologia  360: 295-299.

 

Taylor, D. J., Hebert, P. D. N. & Colbourne, J. K. 1996.  Phylogenetics and evolution of the Daphnia longispina group (Crustacea) based on 12S rDNA sequence and allozyme variation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 5: 495-510. PDF

 

Yan, N. D., Welsh, P. G., Lin, H., Taylor, D. J. & Filion, J. -M.  1996. Demographic and genetic evidence of the long-term recovery of Daphnia galeata mendotae (Crustacea: Daphniidae) in Sudbury lakes following additions of base: the role of metal toxicity. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53: 1328-1344. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J. & Hebert, P.D.N. 1994.  Genetic assessment of species boundaries in the North American Daphnia longispina complex (Crustacea: Daphniidae).  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 110: 27-40. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J., Finston, T. L. & Hebert, P. D. N. 1994.  The 15% solution for preservation.  Trends Ecol. and Evol. 9: 230. (Evidence that drying animal and plant tissues in 15% trehalose can preserve DNA and proteins for molecular study)

 

Taylor, D. J. & Hebert, P.D.N. 1993. Habitat dependent hybrid parentage and differential introgression between neighboringly sympatric Daphnia species.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 90:7079-7083. Abstract PDF

 

Taylor, D. J. & Hebert, P.D.N. 1993. Cryptic intercontinental hybridization in Daphnia (Crustacea): the ghost of introductions past.  Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) Series B: 254: 163-168. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J. & Hebert, P.D.N. 1993.  A reappraisal of phenotypic variation in Daphnia galeata mendotae: the role of interspecific hybridization. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50: 2137-2146. PDF

 

Taylor, D. J. & Hebert, P.D.N. 1992. Daphnia galeata mendotae as a cryptic species complex with interspecific hybrids. Limnol. and Oceanogr. 37: 658-665. PDF

 

Book Chapters:

 

Colbourne, J. K., Hebert, P. D. N. & Taylor, D. J.  1997. Evolutionary origins of phenotypic diversity of Daphnia. In T. Givnish and  K. Sytsma (editors), Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation, pp. 163-188, Cambridge University Press. PDF

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