Peer-reviewed Publications

*Boggs, G.W., *Ward, J.R., Stavrianeas, S. (2008). The external nasal dilator does not alter aerobic performance in college-age women. Journal of Sport and Conditioning Research 22(1): 269-275.

*Dong, M.A., *J.L. Bufford, Y. Oono, *K. Church, *M.Q. Dau, *M. Haughton, *K. Michels, and G. Tallman (2007). Heat suppresses activation of an auxin-responsive promoter in cultured guard cell protoplasts of tree tobacco. Plant Physiology 145: 367-377.

*Sultany, M., Kephart, S., Eilers, P. (2007). Blue flower of tribal legend: Skye blue petals resemble lakes of fine, clear water. Kalmiopsis 14: 28-35.

*Theiss, K.* Kephart, S., Ivey, C.  (2007). Pollinator  effectiveness  on co-occurring milkweeds (Asclepias: Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae).  Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 94: 507-516.

Arabas, K.B., K.S. Hadley, and * Larson, E.R. (2006). Fire history of a naturally fragmented landscape in central Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36(5): 1108-1120.

Kephart, S. (2006). Pollination mutualisms in the Caryophyllaceae. New Phytologist 169: 667-680.

Kephart S., *Reynolds, R., Rutter, M., Fenster, C., Dudash, M. (2006). Pollination and seed predation by moths  on Silene and allied Caryophyllaceae: evaluating a model system to study the evolution of mutualisms. New Phytologist 169: 637-640. (with cover photo)

*Uyeda,  J., Kephart, S. (2006). Detecting species boundaries and hybridization in Camassia quamash and C. leichtlinii (Agavaceae) using allozymes.  Systematic Botany 31: 642-655.

*Lofflin, D., Kephart, S. (2005). Outbreeding, seedling establishment, and maladaptation in natural and reintroduced populations of rare and common Silene douglasii (Caryophyllaceae).   Amer. J. Botany 92: 1691-1700. (with cover photo)

Kephart, S. (2005). Pollen-pollinator limitation,   Chpt 6.4. In: Dafni A, Kevan P, & B. Husband (eds). Practical Pollination Ecology. Enviroquest, Ontario, Canada.

Kephart, S., *Theiss, K. (2004). Pollinator-mediated isolation in sympatric milkweeds (Asclepias) do floral morphology & insect behavior influence species boundaries? New Phytologist 161: 265-77.

Kephart, S. (2004). Inbreeding and re-introduction: progeny success in rare Silene populations of varied density.  Conservation Genetics 5: 49-61.

*Hatfield, E., Kephart, S. (2003). Reproductive isolation and hybridization between two sympatric milkweeds (Asclepias fascicularis and A. speciosa). Madroño 50: 170-180.

*Gushwa, N., *D. Hayashi, D., A. Kemper, B. Abram, J.E. Taylor, *J. Upton, C.F. Tay, *S. Fiedler, *S. Pullen, *L. Miller and G. Tallman (2003).Thermotolerant guard cell protoplasts of Nicotiana glauca (Graham), tree tobacco, do not require exogenous hormones to survive in culture and are blocked from re-entering the cell cycle at the G1/S transition. Plant Physiology 132: 1925-1940.

*Olsen, R.L., *R.B. Pratt, *P. Gump, A. Kemper, and G. Tallman (2002). Red light activates a chloroplast-dependent ion uptake mechanism for stomatal opening under reduced CO₂ concentrations in Vicia spp. New Phytologist 153: 497-508.