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Rosenthal, D.M., A.P. Ramakrishnan, and M.B. Cruzan. 2008.  Evidence for multiple sources and intraspecific hybridization at early stages of the invasion of Brachypodium sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv. in North America. Molecular Ecology (in press).
Picotte, J.J., D.M. Rosenthal, J.M. Rhode, and M.B. Cruzan. 2007. Plastic responses to temporal variation in moisture availability: consequences for water use efficiency and plant performance. Oecologia 153:821-832.
Benz, B.R., J.M. Rhode, and M.B. Cruzan. 2007. Aerenchyma development and elevated alcohol dehydrogenase activity as alternative responses to hypoxic soils in the Piriqueta caroliniana complex. American Journal of Botany 94: 542-550.
Rhode, J. M., and M. B. Cruzan. 2005. Contributions of heterosis and epistasis to hybrid fitness. The American Naturalist 166:E124-E139
Cruzan, M. B. 2005. Patterns of introgression across an expanding hybrid zone: analyzing historical patterns of gene flow using non-equilibrium approaches. New Phytologist 167:267-278.
Handy, S.M., K. McBreen, and M.B. Cruzan.2004  Patterns of fitness and fluctuating asymmetry across a broad hybrid zone. International Journal of Plant Sciences 165: 973-981..
McBreen K, Cruzan MB. 2004. A Case of Recent Long-Distance Dispersal in the Piriqueta caroliniana Complex. J Hered. 95(4):356-61.
Morris, A.B., R. Baucom, and M.B. Cruzan. 2002. Stratified analysis of the soil seed bank in the cedar glade endemic, Astragalus bibullatus: Evidence for historical changes in genetic structure. American Journal of Botany 89:29-36.
Cruzan, M.B. 2001. Population size and fragmentation thresholds for the maintenance of genetic diversity in the endemic, Scutellaria montana (Lamiaceae). Evolution 55:1569-1580.
Cruzan, M.B. and A.R. Templeton.  2000.   Paleoecology and coalescence: phylogeographic analysis of hypotheses from the fossil record.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:491-496.
Maskas, S.D. and M.B. Cruzan. 2000. Intraspecific diversification in the Piriqueta caroliniana complex in Florida and the Bahamas. Evolution 54:815-827.
Martin, L.J. and M.B. Cruzan. 1999. Patterns of hybridization in the Piriqueta caroliniana complex in central Florida: Evidence for an expanding hybrid zone. Evolution 53:1037-1049.
Cruzan, M.B. and M.L. Arnold. 1999. Consequences of cytonuclear epistasis and assortative mating for the genetic structure of hybrid populations. Heredity 82:36-45.
Wang, J. and M.B. Cruzan. 1998. Interspecific mating in the Piriqueta caroliniana (Turneraceae) complex: effects of pollen load size and composition. American Journal of Botany 85:1172-1179.
Cruzan, M.B. 1998. Genetic markers in plant evolutionary ecology. Ecology 79:400-412.