Dr. Linley Jesson

Publications

Crawford, M, LK Jesson & PJ Garnock-Jones (2009). Correlated evolution of sexual system and life history traits in mosses. Evolution. In press.

Eppley, SM & LK Jesson (2008). Moving to mate: The evolution of separate and combined sexes in multicellular organisms. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:727-736. pdf

Brookes, RH, LK Jesson & M Burd (2008). A simultaneous test of resource and pollen limitation in Stylidium armeria. New Phytologist 179:557-565 pdf

Kubien, DS, SM Whitney, PV Moore, and LK Jesson (2008). The biochemistry of Rubisco in Flaveria. Journal of Experimental Botany 7:1767-1777  pdf

McAlpine, KG and LK Jesson (2008). Linking seed dispersal, germination and seedling recruitment in the invasive species Berberis darwinii ( Darwin's barberry). Plant Ecology 197:119-129. pdf

McAlpine KG, LK Jesson & DS Kubien (2008). Photosynthesis and water use efficiency: a comparison between invasive (exotic) and non-invasive (native) species. Austral Ecology 33: 10-19 pdf

Taylor, PJ, SM Eppley, and LK Jesson (2007). Sporophytic inbreeding depression in mosses occurs in a species with separate sexes but not in a species with combined sexes. American Journal of Botany 94: 1853-1859 pdf

Eppley, SM, PJ Taylor and LK Jesson (2007). Heterozygosity in mosses: a comparison between species with combined versus separate sexes. Heredity 98: 33-44 pdf.

Jesson LK (2007). Ecological correlates of diversification in New Zealand angiosperm lineages. New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 35-51. abstract and pdf.

McAlpine, KG. and LK Jesson (2007). Biomass allocation, shade tolerance and seedling survival of the invasive species Berberis darwinii (Darwin's barberry). New Zealand Journal of Ecology 31: 1-12 pdf.

Brookes, RK and LK Jesson (2007). No evidence for pollen and resource limitation in Aciphylla squarrosa: A long-lived, masting herb. Austral Ecology 32: 370-377 pdf

Gamage, H and LK Jesson (2007) Leaf heteroblasty is not an adaptation to shade: anatomical and physiological responses to light in seedlings of heteroblastic and homoblastic species. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 31: 245-254 pdf

Jesson, L.K., L.D. Milicich, and S.C. Newman (2006). Competition-dependent incompatibility in Phormium tenax: Does self-fertilisation provide reproductive assurance? New Zealand Journal of Botany 44: 249-261  pdf

Jesson, L.K. and S.C.H. Barrett (2005). Experimental tests of the function of mirror image flowers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 85:167-179 pdf

Jesson, LK, SCH Barrett and T Day (2003). A theoretical investigation of the evolution and maintenance of mirror-image flowers. American Naturalist 161:916-931 pdf

Jesson LK and SCH Barrett (2003). The comparative biology of enantiostyly. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164(5 Suppl.):S237–S249 pdf

Jesson, LK, J Kang, S Wagner, SCH Barrett and NG Dengler (2002). The development of mirror-image flowers. American Journal of Botany 90:181-194 pdf

Jesson LK and SCH Barrett (2002). Solving the puzzle of mirror-image flowers Nature 417:707 pdf

Jesson, LK and SCH Barrett (2002). The genetics of mirror-image flowers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: 269:1835-1839 pdf

Jesson LK and SCH Barrett (2002). Enantiostyly in Wachendorfia (Haemodoraceae): The influence of reproductive systems on the maintenance of the polymorphism. American Journal of Botany 89: 253-263  pdf

Barrett SCH, LK Jesson & AM Baker (2000). The evolution and function of stylar polymorphisms in flowering plants. Annals of Botany 85(A):253-265  pdf

Barrett SCH, AM Baker & LK Jesson (2000). Mating strategies in monocotyledons. In KL Wilson & D Morrison (eds.) Systematics and evolution in monocots. CSIRO Publishers, Melbourne  pdf

Jesson LK, D Kelly & AD Sparrow (2000). The importance of disturbance, dispersal and competition for exotic plant invasions in Arthur's Pass National Park (New Zealand). New Zealand Journal of Botany 38:451-468  pdf


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