Publications: (click to download pdf)

11. Matthews, B, LJ Harmon, L M’Gonigle, KB Marchinko, H Schaschl. (2010) Sympatric and allopatric divergence of MHC genes in threespine stickleback.  PLoS One 5: e10948 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010948.

10. Schluter, D., K. B. Marchinko, R. D. H. Barrett, and S. M. Rogers. 2010. Natural selection and the genetics of adaptation in threespine stickleback. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of LondonB in press

9. Matthews, B, KB. Marchinko, DI. Bolnick, A. Mazumder. (2010) Specialization of trophic position and habitat use by sticklebacks in an adaptive radiation. Ecology 91: 1025–1034

8. Marchinko, KB. (2009) Predation’s role in repeated phenotypic and genetic divergence of armor in threespine stickleback. Evolution 63:127-138

7. Marchinko, KB. (2007) Feeding behavior reveals the adaptive nature of plasticity in barnacle feeding limbs. Biological Bulletin 213: 12-15

6. Marchinko, KB., & D Schluter. (2007). Parallel evolution by correlated response: Lateral plate reduction in threespine stickleback. Evolution 61: 1084-1090

5. Altwegg, R., KB Marchinko, SL Duquette, & BR Anholt. (2004). Dynamics of an inducible defence in the protist Euplotes.  Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 160 (4):431-446

4. Marchinko, KB.,  M. T. Nishizaki, & K. C. Burns. (2004). Community-wide character displacement in barnacles:  A new perspective for past observations. Ecology Letters 7(2): 114-120

3. Marchinko, KB. (2003). Dramatic phenotypic plasticity in barnacle legs (Balanus glandula Darwin):  Magnitude, age-dependence and speed of response. Evolution 57:1281-1290

2. Marchinko, KB., & AR Palmer. (2003). Feeding in flow extremes: Form of barnacle cirri in relation to wave-exposure. Zoology 106:127-141

1. Arsenault, DJ., KB Marchinko, & AR Palmer. (2001). Precise tuning of barnacle leg length to coastal wave action. Proc Roy Soc Lon B 268: 2149-2154

Theses

Marchinko, KB. 2009. Mechanisms of divergence in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). PhD Thesis, University of British Columbia.

Marchinko, KB. 2002. Wave-dependent phenotypic plasticity in feeding legs of intertidal barnacles. MSc. Thesis, University of Alberta.