J. Spencer Johnston

Earlier Publications

Kathirithamby, J., L. D. Ross, and J. Spencer Johnston. (2003) Masquerading as self? Endoparasitic Strepsiptera (Insecta) enclose themselves in host-derived epidermal bag. PNAS 100(13):7655-7659, Online June 3, 2003

Bennett, M. D., I. J. Leitch, H. J. Price, and J. S. Johnston. (2003). Comparisons with Caenorhabditis elegans (~100 Mb) show that genome size in Arabidopsis is not 125 Mb but approaches Drosophila (~175 Mb). Ann. Botany 91:547-557.

Wendell, J. F., R. C. Cronn, J. S. Johnston and H. J. Price. (2002) Feast and famine in plant genomes. Genetica 115:37-47.

Williams, C. G., K. L. Joyner, L. D. Auckland, J. S. Johnston, and H. J. Price. (2002) Genomic Consequences of Interspecific Pinus spp. Hybridization. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 75:503-508.

Auckland L. D., J. S. Johnston, H. J. Price, and F. E. Bridgewater. (2001) Stability of nuclear content among divergent and isolated populations of Fraser fir. Can. J. Bot. 79:1375-1378.

Grauke Larry J., H. James Price and J. Spencer Johnston. (2001) Genome size of pecan as determined by flow cytometry. Hortscience 36 (4): 814-814.

Halbert, N., Ross, L., Kathirithamby, J., Wolley, J., Saff, R., & J. S. Johnston. (2001) Phylogenetic analysis as a means of species identification within Myrmecolacidae (Insecta: Strepsiptera). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 144: 179-186.

Joyner, K. L., Xiao-Ru Wang, J. S. Johnston, H. James Price, and C. G. Williams. (2001) DNA Content f r Asian Pines Parallels New World Relatives. Can. J. Botany 79:192-196.

Bennett, M. D., J. S. Johnston, G. Hodnett and H. J. Price. (2000) Allium cepa L. Cultivars from four Continents Compared by flow Cytometry show Nuclear DNA constancy. Annals of Botany 85:351-357.

Hall, S. E., W. S. Dvorak, J. S. Johnston, H. J. Price and C. G. Williams. (2000) Flow Cytometric Analysis of DNA Content for Tropical and Temperate New World Pines. Annals of Botany 86:1081-1086.

Petrov, D. A., T. A. Sangster, J. S. Johnston, D. L. Hartl, and K. L. Shaw. (2000) Evidence for DNA Loss as a determinant of genome size. Science 287:1060-1062.

Price, H. J. G. Hodnett and J. S. Johnston. (2000) Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) leaves contain compounds that reduce Propidium Iodide Fluorescence. Annals of Botany 86:929-934.

Johnston J. S., M. D. Bennett, A. L. Rayburn AL, D. W. Galbraith, and H. J. Price. (1999) Reference standards for determination of DNA content of plant nuclei. American J. BOTANY 86:609-613.

Johnston J. S., A. Jenson, D. G. Czeschin, and H. J. Price. 1996. Environmentally induced nuclear 2C DNA content variation in Helianthus annuus L. Amer. Journ. Bot. 83:1113-1120.

Peterson, D.G., H. J. Price, J. S. Johnston, and S.M. Stack. 1996 DNA content of heterochromatin and euchromatin in Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) pachytene chromosomes. Genome 39:77-82.

Price, H. J. and J. S. Johnston. 1996. Light induced DNA content changes in Helianthus annuus L. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.

Price, H. J., and J. S. Johnston. 1996. Analysis of plant DNA content by Fuelgen micro-spectrophotometry and flow cytometry. in: P. Jauhur [ed.], Methods of Genome Analysis in Plants: Their merits and Pitfalls. Chpt. 7, 115-132. CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, FL.

Gomez, M., J. S. Johnston, J. R. Ellison, and H. J. Price. 1993. Nuclear 2C DNA content of Gossypium hirsutum L. accessions determined by flow cytometry. Biol. Zent. 112:351-357.

Jackson, R. C., C. F. Crane, J. S. Johnston, J. R. Ellison, and and H. J. Price. 1993. Anuploidy, structural chromosome changes, and DNA amounts in the annual taxa of the Haplopappus spinulosus complex. Chromosome Research 1:53-61.

Thindwa, H. P., G. L. Teetes, and J. S. Johnston. 1994. Greenbug DNA content. Southwestern Entomol. 19:371-378.

Wakamiya, I., R. J. Newton, J. S. Johnston and H. J. Price. 1993. Genome size and environmental factors in the genus Pinus. Amer. Jn. Botany 80:1235-1241.

Michaelson, M. J., H. J. Price, J. R. Ellison, and J. S. Johnston. 1991. Comparison of plant DNA contents determined by Fuelgen microspectrophotometry and laser flow cytometry. Amer. Journ. Botany 78: 183-188.

Michaelson, M. J., H. J. Price, J. S. Johnston, and J. R. Ellison. 1991. Variation of nuclear DNA content in Helianthus anuus (Asteracea). Amer. Journ. Botany 78:1238-1243.

Other significant publications
Cook, Jerry L., J. S. Johnston, R. E. Gold, and S. B. Vinson. 1997. Distribution of Caenocolax feneysi (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) and the habitats most likely to contain stylopized host, Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Env. Entomol. 26:1258-62.

Mouneimine, Y., E. Collisson, J. S. Johnston, and R. Meola. 1994. Electroinsertion of proteins into red blood cell membrane: A novel method of drug targeting. Adv. in Biosci. 92:31-36.

Templeton, A. R., H. Hollocher, and J. S. Johnston. 1993. The molecular through ecological genetics of abnormal abdomen in Drosophila mercatorum V. Female phenotypic expression on natural genetic backgrounds and in natural environments. Genetics 134:475-485.

Hollocher, H., A. R. Templeton, R. DeSalle and J. S. Johnston. 1992. The molecular through ecological genetics of abnormal abdomen. IV. Components of genetic variation in a natural population of Drosophila mercatorum. Genetics 130:355-366.

Kathirithamby, J., and J. S. Johnston. 1992. Stylopization of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Caenoccholax fenyesi (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) in Texas. Ann. ent Soc. Amer. 85:293-297.

Dunton, R. F., S. B. Vinson and J. S. Johnston. 1991. Unique isozyme electromorphs in polygynous red imported fire ant populations. Biochemical Syst. and Ecol. 19:453-460.

Cluck, T. W., F. W. Plapp, and J. S. Johnston. 1990. Genetics of organophosphate resistance in field populations of the house fly (Diptera: Muscidae). Jn. Econ. entomol. 83:48-54.

Templeton, A. R., H. Hollocher, S. Lawler, and J. S. Johnston. 1990. The ecological genetics of abnormal abdomen in Drosophila mercatorum, in: Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics of Drosophila, (J.S.F. Barker, W.T. Starmer, and R. J. McIntyre eds.), pp. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 17-35.

Templeton, A. R., H. Hollocher, S. Lawler, and J. S. Johnston. 1989. Natural selection and ribosomal DNA in Drosophila. Genome 31: 296-303.

Templeton, A.R. and J. S. Johnston. 1988. The measured genotype approach to ecological genetics, in Population Genetics and Evolution, pp. 138-146. G. de Jong ed. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

DeSalle, R., A. Templeton, I. Mori, S. Pletscher, and J. S. Johnston. 1987. Temporal and spacial heterogeniety of mtDNA polymorphisms in natural populations of Drosophila mercatorum. Genetics 116:215-223.

Templeton, A. R., J. S. Johnston, and C. F. Sing. 1987. The proximate and ultimate control of aging in Drosophila and humans, in: Evolution of Longevity in Animals, pp. 123-133. Avril D. Woodhead and Keith H. Thompson, eds. Plenum Press, N. Y.