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Fondon III, J.W., E.A.D. Hammock, A.J. Hannan, and D.G. King (2008)  Simple sequence repeats: Genetic modulators of brain function and behavior.  Trends in Neuroscience 31: 328-334.  doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2008.03.006.   [authors' prepublication MSWord document]

D.G. King and Y. Kashi (2007)  Mutation rate variation in eukaryotes: evolutionary implications of site-specific mechanisms.  Nature Reviews Genetics 8 (November 2007) | doi:10.1038/nrg2158-c1. 

D.G. King and Y. Kashi (2007)  Mutability and Evolvability:  Indirect selection for mutability.  Heredity 99:123-124. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800998. 

Y. Kashi and D.G. King (2006)  Has simple sequence repeat mutability been selected to facilitate evolution?  Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 52:331-342.  doi:10.1560/IJEE_52_3-4_331

Hammock, E.A.D., and D.G. King (2006)  Genes and neuroethology:  How can evolution adjust behavior?  International Society for Neuroethology Newsletter, November 2006, pp. 4-7.

Y. Kashi and D.G. King (2006)  Simple Sequence Repeats as Advantageous Mutators in Evolution.  Trends in Genetics 22: 253-259.  [Abstract] 
doi: 10.1016/j.tig.2006.03.005

King, D.G., E.N. Trifonov, and Y. Kashi  (2006)  Tuning Knobs in the Genome:  Evolution of Simple Sequence Repeats by Indirect Selection.  In: Lynn H. Caporale, ed., The Implicit Genome, Oxford University Press.  [Abstract]   [Table of contents for The Implicit Genome]

King, D.G., and J.G. Killian (2002)  Binocular rivalry, bipolar disorder, and aging:  Perceptual alternation rate correlates with age as well as with psychiatric diagnosis.  Program No. 803.4. 2002 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Washington DC:  Society for Neuroscience.  [Abstract with graph of data]

King, D.G. (2000)  Indirect selection on the mutational landscape: An evolved role for the mutability of repetitive DNA?  IN: Evolution 2000, (ed. M.J. Wade), Indiana University Conferences, Bloomington, Indiana.  [pdf]

Krajewski, C., Fain, M., L. Buckley and King, D. G. (1999)  Dynamically heterogenous partitions and model-based phylogenetic inference:  An evaluation of analytical strategies with cytochrome b and ND6 gene sequences in cranes.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 13: 302-313.  [Abstract]

King, D.G. (1999)  Modelling selection for adjustable genes based on simple sequence repeats.  In: Molecular Strategies in Biological Evolution, Annals of the New York Academy of Science 870: 396-399.  [Abstract]

King, D.G., and M. Soller (1999)  Variation and fidelity:  The evolution of simple sequence repeats as functional elements in adjustable genes.  In:  S.P. Wasser, ed., Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Modern Perspectives, pp. 65-82.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.  [Abstract]  

King, D.G. (1997)  Is there a role for comparative genetics in neuroethology?  International Society for Neuroethology Newsletter, July 1997.

King, D.G., M. Soller and Y. Kashi (1997)  Evolutionary tuning knobs.  Endeavour 21: 36-40.  [pdf]  [related page]

Y. Kashi, D.G. King, and M. Soller (1997)  Simple sequence repeats as a source of quantitative genetic variation.  Trends in Genetics 13: 74-78.  [Abstract]  [pdf]

Krajewski, C. and D.G. King, (1996)  Molecular divergence and phylogeny:  Rates and patterns of cytochrome b evolution in cranes.  Molecular Biology and Evolution 13: 21-30.  [Abstract]

King, D.G. (1994)  Triplet repeat DNA as a highly mutable regulatory mechanism.  Science 263: 595-596.  [PDF text]

King, D.G. (1991)  The origin of an organ:  Phylogenetic analysis of evolutionary innovation in the digestive tract of flies (Insecta: Diptera).  Evolution 45:568-588.

King, D.G. (1989)  Phylogenetic diversity of cellular organization in the cardia of muscoid flies (Diptera: Schizophora).  Journal of Morphology 202: 435-455.  [Abstract]

King, D.G. (1988)  Cellular organization and peritrophic membrane formation in the cardia (proventriculus) of Drosophila melanogaster.  Journal of Morphology 196: 253-282.  [Abstract]

King, D.G. (1985)  Metaptation: A descriptive category for evolutionarily versatile patterns of genetic and ontogenetic organization.  Evolutionary Theory 7:222.  [Abstract]  [unpublished ms.]

Wyman, R.J., J.B. Thomas, L. Salkoff, and D.G. King (1984)  The escape response of Drosophila melanogaster.  In:  Neural Mechanisms of Startle Behavior (R. Eaton, Ed.), Plenum Press, New York.

King, D.G. and M.A. Tanouye (1983)  Anatomy of motor axons to direct flight muscles in Drosophila.  Journal of Experimental Biology 105: 231-239.

Tanouye, M.A. and D.G. King (1983)  Giant fiber activation of direct flight muscles in Drosophila.  Journal of Experimental Biology 105: 241-251.

King, D.G. and K.L. Valentino (1983)  On neuronal homology:  A comparison of similar axons in Musca, Sarcophaga and Drosophila (Diptera:  Schizophora).  Journal of Comparative Neurology 219: 1-9.  [Abstract]

King, D.G. (1983)  Evolutionary loss of a neural pathway from the nervous system of a fly (Glossina morsitans, Diptera).  Journal of Morphology 175: 27-32.

King, D.G., N. Kammlade, and J. Murphy (1982)  A simple device to help reembed plastic sections.  Stain Technology 57: 307-311.

King, D.G. and R.J. Wyman (1980)  Anatomy of the giant fiber pathway in Drosophila:  I.  Three thoracic components of the pathway.  Journal of Neurocytology 9: 753-770.  [Abstract]

Wyman, R.J. and D.G. King, (1978)  The dispersion of imaginal disc progenitor cells in the Drosophila blastoderm.  Genetic Research 31: 273-286.

King, D.G. (1976)  Organization of crustacean neuropil:  I.  Patterns of synaptic connections in lobster stomatogastric ganglion.  Journal of Neurocytology 5: 207-237.  [Abstract]

King, D.G. (1976)  Organization of crustacean neuropil:  II.  Distribution of synaptic contacts on identified motor neurons in lobster stomatogastric ganglion.  Journal of Neurocytology 5: 239-266.  [Abstract]

Selverston, A., D.R. Russell, J.P. Miller, and D.G. King, (1976)  The stomatogastric nervous system:  Structure and function of a small neural network.  Progress in Neurobiology 7: 215-290.

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