Gilchrist Lab Publications

Gilchrist, G. W., and C. Lee. 2007. All stressed out and nowhere to go: does evolvability limit adaptation in invasive species? Genetica 129:127-132. [PDF]

Folk, D. G., L. A. Hoekstra, and G. W. Gilchrist. 2007. Critical thermal maxima in knockdown-selected Drosophila: are thermal endpoints correlated? Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 2649-2656. [PDF]

Balanyà, J., J. M. Oller, R. B. Huey, G. W. Gilchrist, and L. Serra. 2007. Response to comment on "Global genetic change tracks global climate warming in Drosophila subobscura". Science 315: 1497. [PDF]

Pascual, M., M. P. Chapuis, F. Mestres, J. Balanyà, R. B. Huey, G. W. Gilchrist, L. Serra, and A. Estoup. 2007. Introduction history of Drosophila subobscura in the New World: a microsatellite-based survey using ABC methods. Molecular Ecology 16:3069-3083. [PDF]

Heyl, T. P., W. P. Gilhooly, R. M. Chambers, G. W. Gilchrist, S. A. Macko, C. D. Ruppel, and C. L. Van Dover. 2007. Characteristics of vesicomyid clams and their environment at the Blake Ridge cold seep, South Carolina USA. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 339:169-184. [PDF]

Balanyà , J., J. M. Oller, R. B. Huey, G. W. Gilchrist, and L. Serra. 2006. Global Genetic Change Tracks Global Climate Warming in Drosophila subobscura. Science 313:1773-1775. [PDF]

Folk, D. G., P. Zwollo, D. M. Rand, and G. W. Gilchrist. 2006. Selection on knockdown performance in Drosophila melanogaster impacts thermotolerance and heat-shock response differently in females and males. Journal of Experimental Biology 209:3964-3973. [PDF]

Huey, R. B., B. Moreteau, J.-C. Moreteau, P. Gibert, G. W. Gilchrist, A. R. Ives, J. T. Garland, and J. R. David. 2006. Sexual size dimorphism in a Drosophila clade, the D. obscura group. Zoology 109:318-330. [PDF]

Huey, R. B., and G. W. Gilchrist. 2006. Drosophila subobscura. In: Invasive Species of the Pacific Northwest. P. D Boersma, S. E. Reichard & A. N. Van Buren, eds. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Huey, R. B., G. W. Gilchrist, and A. P. Hendry. 2005. Using invasive species to study evolution. In D. F. Sax, S. D. Gaines and J. J. Stachowicz, eds. Species Invasions: Insights to Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W., R. B. Huey, J. Balanyà , M. Pascual, and L. Serra. 2004. A Time Series of Evolution In Action: Latitudinal Cline in Wing Size in South American Drosophila subobscura. Evolution 58:768-780. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W., and R. B. Huey. 2004. Plastic and genetic variation in wing loading as a function of temperature within and among parallel clines in Drosophila subobscura. Integrative and Comparative Biology 44:461-470. [PDF]

Huey, R. B., and G. W. Gilchrist. 2004. Drosophila subobscura. 2004. P. D. Boersma, S. E. Reichard and A. Van Buren, eds. Unwanted: Invasive Species of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Balanyà, J., L. Serra, G. W. Gilchrist, R. B. Huey, M. Pascual, F. Mestres, and E. Solé. 2003. Evolutionary pace of the chromosomal polymorphism of Drosophila subobscura in colonizing populations. Evolution 57:1837-1845. [PDF]

Calboli, F. C. F., G. W. Gilchrist, and L. Partridge. 2003a. Different contribution of cell size and cell number in two newly established and one ancient body size clines of Drosophila subobscura. Evolution 57:566-573. [PDF]

David, J. R., P. Gibert, B. Moreteau, G. W. Gilchrist, and R. B. Huey. 2003. The fly that came in from the cold:  recovery time from cold temperature in Drosophila subobscura. Functional Ecology 17:425-439. [PDF]

Gibert, P., R. B. Huey, and G. W. Gilchrist. 2001. Locomotor performance of Drosophila melanogaster: Interactions among developmental and adult temperatures, age, and geography. Evolution 55:205-209. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W., R. B. Huey, and L. Serra. 2001. Rapid evolution of wing size clines in Drosophila subobscura. Genetica 112-113:273-286. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W., and R. B. Huey. 2001. Parental and developmental temperature effects on the thermal dependence of fitness in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 55:209-214. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W., and J. G. Kingsolver. 2001. Is Optimality over the Hill? The Fitness Landscapes of Idealized Organisms. Pp. 219-241 in S. H. Orzack and E. Sober, eds. Adaptationism and Optimality. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W. 2000. The Evolution of Thermal Sensitivity in Changing Environments.  Pp. 55-70 in K. B. Storey & J. M. Storey, eds. Cell and Molecular Responses to Stress. Volume 1. Environmental Stressors and Gene Responses. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam. [PDF]

Huey, R. B., G. W. Gilchrist, M. L. Carlson, D. Berrigan, and L. Serra. 2000. Rapid evolution of a geographic cline in size in an introduced fly. Science 287:308-309. [PDF]

Blows, M. W., D. Berrigan, and G. W. Gilchrist. 1999. Rapid evolution toward equal sex ratios in a system with heterogamety. Evolutionary Ecology Research 1:277-283. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W., and R. B. Huey. 1999. The direct response of Drosophila melanogaster to selection on knockdown temperature. Heredity 83:15-29. [PDF]

Huey, R. B., D. Berrigan, G. W. Gilchrist, and J. C. Herron. 1999. Testing the adaptive significance of acclimation: A strong inference approach. American Zoologist 39: 323-336. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W., R. B. Huey, and L. Partridge. 1997. Thermal sensitivity of Drosophila melanogaster: Evolutionary responses of adults and eggs to laboratory natural selection at different temperatures. Physiological Zoology 70:403-414. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W. 1997. The elusive scientific basis of Intelligent Design Theory. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 17:14-15. [PDF]

Crill, W. D., R. B. Huey, and G. W. Gilchrist. 1996. Within- and between-generation effects of temperature on the morphology and physiology of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 50:1205-1218. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W. 1996. A quantitative genetic analysis of thermal sensitivity in the locomotor performance curve of Aphidius ervi. Evolution 50:1560-1572. [PDF]

Gilchrist, G. W. 1995a. Specialists and generalists in changing environments. 1. Fitness landscapes of thermal sensitivity. American Naturalist 146:252-270. [PDF]

Huey, R. B., T. Wakefield, W. D. Crill, and G. W. Gilchrist. 1995. Within- and between-generation effects of temperature on early fecundity of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 71

Ives, A. R., and G. W. Gilchrist. 1993. Climate change and ecological interactions in P. Kareiva, J. G. Kingsolver and R. B. Huey, eds. Biotic Interactions and Global Change. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.

Gilchrist, G. W. 1990. The consequences of sexual dimorphism in body size for butterfly flight and thermoregulation. Functional Ecology 4:475-487. [PDF]

Rutowski, R. L., G. W. Gilchrist, and B. Terkanian. 1988. Male mate-locating behavior in Euphydryas chalcedona (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) related to pupation site differences. Journal of Insect Behavior 1:277-289.

Rutowski, R. L., and G. W. Gilchrist. 1988. Male mate-locating behavior in the desert hackberry butterfly, Asterocampa leilia (Nymphalidae). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 26:1-12.

Rutowski, R. L., G. W. Gilchrist, and B. Terkanian. 1987. Female butterflies mated with recently mated males show reduced reproductive output. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 20:319-322. [PDF]

Rutowski, R. L., and G. W. Gilchrist. 1987. Courtship, copulation, and oviposition in the chaldedon checkerspot, Euphydryas chalcedona (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of Natural History 21:1109-1117.

Gilchrist, G. W., and R. L. Rutowski. 1986. Adaptive and incidental consequences of the alba polymorphism in an agricultural population of Colias butterflies: female size, fecundity, and differential dispersion. Oecologia (Berlin) 68:235-240.

Rutowski, R. L., and G. W. Gilchrist. 1986. Copulation in Colias eurytheme (Lepidoptera: Pieridae): patterns and frequency. Journal of Zoology, London (A) 209:115-124.