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Rand, D. M. 1993. Endotherms, ectotherms and mitochondrial genome-size variation. Journal of Molecular Evolution 37:281-295.

Rand, D. M. 1994. Thermal habit, metabolic rate and the evolution of mitochondrial DNA. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9: 125-131.

Rand, D. M., M. L. Dorfsman and L. M. Kann 1994. Neutral and non-neutral evolution of Drosophila mitochondrial DNA. Genetics 138: 741-756. (Abstract)

Hutter, C. M., and D. M. Rand. 1995. Competition between mitochondrial haplotypes in distinct nuclear genetic environments: Drosophila pseudoobscura vs. D. persimilis. Genetics 140: 537-548. (Abstract)

Kilpatrick, S. T., and D. M. Rand. 1995. Conditional hitchhiking of mitochondrial DNA: frequency shifts of Drosophila melanogaster mtDNA variants depends on nuclear genetic background. Genetics 141: 1113-1124.

Rand, D. M. 1996. Neutrality tests of molecular markers and the connection between DNA polymorphism, demography , and conservation biology. Conservation Biology 10: 665-671.

Rand, D. M. and L. M. Kann, 1996 Excess amino acid polymorphism in mitochondrial DNA: contrasts among genes from Drosophila, mice, and humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13(6):735-748. (Abstract)

Hamilton, M. B. and D. M. Rand., 1996 Relatedness estimated by oligonucleotide probe DNA fingerprints and the mating system of Sea Lavender (Limonium carolineanum). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 93: 249-256.

Datta, S., M. Kiparsky, D. M. Rand, and J. Arnold. 1996. A statistical test of a neutral model using the dynamics of cytonuclear disequilibria. Genetics 144:1985-1992.

Rand, D. M. and L. M. Kann. 1998. Mutation and selection at silent and replacement sites in the evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA. Genetica 102/103:393-407. (Abstract)

Zouros, E. and D. M. Rand. 1998. Population genetics and evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA. Chapter 23 in Evolutionary Genetics from Molecules to Morphology, R. Singh and C. Krimbas, Eds. Cambridge University Press.

Kann, L. M., E. R. Rosenblum, and D. M. Rand. 1998. Aging, mating, and the evolution of heteroplasmy for mtDNA length variants in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 95:2372-2377. (Abstract)

Boussy, I. A., I. Masanobu, D. Rand, and R. C. Woodruff. 1998. Decay of the eastern Australian latitudinal cline of P element-associated properties in Drosophila melanogaster populations, and a test of the clineís origins. Genetica 140:45-57 .

Schmidt, P. S. and D. M. Rand. 1999. Intertidal microhabitat and selection at Mpi: Inter-locus contrasts in the northern acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides. Evolution 53: 135-146. (Abstract)

Schmidt, P.S., M. D. Bertness, and D. M. Rand. 2000. Environmental heterogeneity and balancing selection in the acorn barnacle Semibalanus balanoides. Proceeding of the Royal Society of London B 267:: 379-384.

Brown, A. F. L. M. Kann and D. M. Rand, 2001. Gene flow versus local adaptation in the Northern acorn barnacle, Semibalanus balanoides: insights from mtDNA control regions polymorphisms. Evolution 55: 1972-1979.(Abstract)

Weinreich, D. M. and D. M. Rand, 2000 Contrasting patterns of non-neutralevolution in proteins encoded in nucelar and mitochondrial genomes. Genetics(in press, Sept.) (Abstract)

Rand, D. M., D. M. Weinreich, and B. O. Cezairliyan. 2000. Neutrality tests of conservative and radical amino acid changes in nuclear and mitochdrial proteins. Gene (in press) (Abstract)

Rand, D. M. 2001. Mitochondrial genomics flies high. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16:2-4.

Rand, D. M. 2001. The units of selection on mitochondrial DNA. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32: 415-448.

Rand, D. M., A. G. Clark, and L. M. Kann. 2001. Sexually antagonistic cytonuclear fitness interactions in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 2001 159: 173-187.

Schmidt, P. S., and D. M. Rand. 2001. Adaptive maintenance of genetic polymorphism in an intertidal barnacle: Habitat and life history stage-specific survivorship of Mpi genotypes. Evolution 55(7):1336-44.

Tatar, M. and D. M. Rand. 2001. Aging: Dietary advice on Q. Science 295:54-55.

Cezairliyan, B. O. and D. M. Rand. 2002. The hominid mitochondrial genome and proteome show distinct departures from neutral evolution. Submitted 7/2002.

Fry, A. F., M. R. Palmer, and D. M. Rand. 2002. Mutualistic Wolbachia in Drosophila melanogaster: infection can extend longevity and increase fecundity. Submitted to Evolution 5/2002.

Fry, A. F. and D. M. Rand. 2002. Wolbachia interactions that determine Drosophila melanogaster survival. Evolution in press.

Rand, D. M., P. S. Spaeth, T. Sackton, and P. S. Schmidt. 2002. Ecological genetics of the Mpi and Gpi polymorphisms in the northern acorn barnacle and the spatial scale of neutral and non-neutral variation. Integrative and Comparative Biology, in press.

Sheldahl LA, Weinreich DM, Rand DM. Recombination, dominance and selection on amino acid polymorphism in the Drosophila genome: contrasting patterns on the X and fourth chromosomes. Genetics. 2003 Nov;165(3):1195-208.

Kingan SB, Tatar M, Rand DM. Reduced polymorphism in the chimpanzee semen coagulating protein, semenogelin I. J Mol Evol. 2003 Aug;57(2):159-69.

Sackton TB, Haney RA, Rand DM. Cytonuclear coadaptation in Drosophila: disruption of cytochrome c oxidase activity in backcross genotypes. Evolution . 2003 Oct;57(10):2315-25.

Fry, A.F., M. R. Palmer, and D. M. Rand. 2004. Variable fitness effects of Wolbachia infection in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 93(4):379-389.

Rand, D. M., R. A. Haney, A. J. Fry. 2004. Cytonuclear coevolution: the genomics of cooperation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19(12):645-653.

Townsend JP, Rand DM. Mitochondrial genome size variation in New World and Old World populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity. 2004 Jul;93(1):98-103.

Ballard. J. W. O. and D. M. Rand. 2005. The population biology mitochondrial DNA and its phylogenetic implications. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 36:621-642.

Rand, D.M. 2005. Mitochondrial genetics of aging: problems in inter-genomic conflict resolutions. Science Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ., Vol. 2005, Issue 45, pp. re5, 9 November 2005[DOI:10.1126/sageke.2005.45.re5].

Rand, D. M., A. J. Fry, and L. A. Sheldahl. 2006. Nuclear-mitochondrial epistasis and Drosophila aging: Introgression of D. simulans mtDNA alters longevity in D. melanogaster nuclear backgrounds. Genetics 172: January in press (e-pub ahead of print. doi:10.1534/genetics.105.046698)

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