Most cited as of November 2009 (times cited in parenthesis)

1. Tuskan, GA, and 80 other authors including Ritland K. 2006. The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray). Science 313: 1596-1604. pdf (439)

2. Ritland, K. and S.K. Jain. 1981. A model for the estimation of outcrossing rate and gene frequencies using n independent loci. Heredity 47: 35-52. pdf (312)

3. Ritland, K. 1990. A series of FORTRAN computer programs for estimating plant mating systems. Journal of Heredity 81: 235-237. pdf (254)

4. Lynch, M. and K. Ritland. 1999. Estimation of pairwise relatedness with molecular markers. Genetics 152: 1753-1766. pdf (222)

5. Ritland, K. 2002. Extensions of models for the estimation of mating systems using n independent loci. Heredity 88: 221-228. pdf (159)

6. Ritland, K. 1996. Estimators for pairwise relatedness and individual inbreeding coefficients. Genetical Research 67: 175-185. pdf (151)

7. Ritland, K. 1989. Correlated matings in the partial selfer, Mimulus guttatus. Evolution 43: 848-859. pdf (136)

8. Ritland, C. and K. Ritland. 1989. Variation of sex allocation among eight species of the Mimulus guttatus complex. American Journal of Botany 76: 1731-1739. pdf (126)

9. Ritland, K. 1990. Inferences about inbreeding depression based upon changes of the inbreeding coefficient. Evolution 44: 1230-1241. pdf (121)

10. Ritland, K. 2000. Marker-inferred relatedness as a tool for detecting heritability in nature. Molecular Ecology 9: 1195-1204. pdf (101)

11. Ritland, K. and Y.A. El-Kassaby. 1985. The nature of inbreeding in a seed orchard of Douglas-fir as shown by an efficient multilocus model. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 71: 375-384. pdf (101)

12. Ritland, K. 1986. Joint maximum likelihood estimation of genetic and mating structure using open-pollinated progenies. Biometrics 42: 25-43. pdf (93)

13. Ritland, K. 1989. Genetic differentiation, diversity and inbreeding in the mountain monkeyflower (Mimulus caespitosus) of the Washington Cascades. Canadian Journal of Botany 67: 2017-2024. pdf (79) Pictures of the collection trip

14. Dole, J. and K. Ritland. 1993. Inbreeding depression in two Mimulus taxa measured by multi-generational changes of the inbreeding coefficient. Evolution 47:361-373. pdf (78)

15. Ritland, K. 1996. A marker-based method for inferences about quantitative inheritance in natural populations. Evolution 50: 1062-1073. pdf (75)

16. Ehlting J, Mattheus N, Aeschliman DS, Li E, Hamberger B, Cullis IF, Kaneda M, Mansfield SD, Samuels AL, Ritland K, Ellis BE, Bohlmann J, Douglas CJ 2005. Global transcript profiling of primary stems from Arabidopsis thaliana identified candidate genes for missing links in lignin biosynthesis and transcriptional regulators of fiber differentiation. The Plant Journal 42: 618-640. pdf (67)

17. Latta, R. and K. Ritland. 1994. The relationship between inbreeding depression and prior inbreeding among populations of four Mimulus taxa. Evolution 48: 806-817. pdf (67)

18. Ritland, K. 1984. The effective proportion of self-fertilization with consanguineous matings in inbred populations. Genetics 106: 139-152. pdf (64)

19. Dudash, M. and K. Ritland. 1991. Multiple paternity and self-fertilization in relation to floral age in Mimulus guttatus. American Journal of Botany 78: 1746-1753. pdf (63)

20. LeClerc-Potvin, C. and Ritland, K. 1994. Modes of self-fertilization in Mimulus guttatus (Schropulariaceae): a field experiment. Amer. J. Bot. 82: 199- 205. pdf (62)

21. Ritland, K. and F.R. Ganders. 1987. Covariation of selfing rates with parental gene fixation indices within populations of Mimulus guttatus. Evolution 4l: 760-771. pdf (61)

22. Ralph S, Oddy C, Cooper D, Yueh H, Jancsik S, Kolosova N, Philippe RN, Aeschliman D, White R, Huber D, Ritland CE, Benoit F, Rigby T, Nantel A, Butterfield YS, Kirkpatrick R, Chun E, Liu J, Palmquist D, Wynhoven B, Stott J, Yang G, Barber S, Holt RA, Siddiqui A, Jones SJ, Marra MA, Ellis BE, Douglas CJ, Ritland K, Bohlmann J. 2006. Genomics of hybrid poplar (Populus trichocarpax deltoides) interacting with forest tent caterpillars (Malacosoma disstria): normalized and full-length cDNA libraries, expressed sequence tags, and a cDNA microarray for the study of insect-induced defences in poplar. Molecular Ecolology 15:1275-97. pdf (58)

23. Sun, M. and Ritland, K. 1998. Mating system parameters of yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis), a successful colonizer in North America. Heredity 80:225-232. pdf (54)

24. Mousseau, T.A., K. Ritland & D.D. Heath. 1998. A novel method for estimating heritability using molecular markers. Heredity 80:218-224. pdf (53)

25. Fu, Y.B. and K. Ritland. 1994. Evidence for partial dominance of viability genes in Mimulus guttatus (Schrophulariaceae). Genetics 136: 323-331. pdf (53)

26. Awadalla, P. and Ritland, K. 1997. Microsatellite variation and evolution in the Mimulus guttatus species complex with contrasting mating systems. Molecular Biology and Evolution 14: 1023-1034. pdf (52)

27. Fenster, C. and Ritland, K. 1994. Quantitative genetics of mating system divergence in the yellow monkeyflower species complex. Heredity 73: 422-435.

28. Ritland, C., K. Ritland and N. Straus. 1993. Variation of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 and ITS2) among eight taxa of the Mimulus guttatus species complex. Molecular Biology and Evolution 10: 1273-1288. pdf (51)

29. Ralph SG, Yueh H, Friedmann M, Aeschliman D, Zeznik JA, Nelson CC, Butterfield YS, Kirkpatrick R, Liu J, Jones SJ, Marra MA, Douglas CJ, Ritland K, Bohlmann J. 2006. Conifer defence against insects: microarray gene expression profiling of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) induced by mechanical wounding or feeding by spruce budworms (Choristoneura occidentalis) or white pine weevils (Pissodes strobi) reveals large-scale changes of the host transcriptome. Plant Cell Environ 29:1545-70. pdf (48)

30. Fenster, C. and K. Ritland. 1992. Chloroplast DNA and isozyme diversity in two Mimulus species (Scrophulariaceae) with contrasting mating systems. American Journal of Botany 79: 1440-1447. pdf (45)

31. Ritland, K. and F.R. Ganders. 1987. Crossability of Mimulus guttatus in relation to components of gene fixation. Evolution 4l: 772-786. pdf (45)

32. Ritland, K. and C. Ritland. 1996. Inferences about quantitative inheritance based upon natural population structure in the common monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus. Evolution 50: 1074-1082. pdf (42)

33. Fenster, C. and Ritland, K. 1994. Evidence for natural selection on mating system in Mimulus (Schrophulariaceae). International Journal of Plant Science 155: 588- 596. pdf (42)

34. Rungis, D., Bérubé, Y., Zhang, J., Ralph, S., Ritland, C.E., Ellis, B.E., Douglas, C., Bohlmann, J. Ritland, K. 2004. Robust simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers for spruce (Picea spp.) from expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Theor. Appl. Genetics 109: 1283-1294. pdf (41)

35. Lin, J.-Z. and Ritland, K. 1997. Quantitative trait loci differentiating the outbreeding Mimulus guttatus from the inbreeding Mimulus platycalyx Genetics 146: 1115-1121. pdf (40)

36. Ritland, K. and F. Ganders. 1985. Variation in the mating system of Bidens menziesii in relation to population substructure. Heredity 55: 235-244. pdf (40)

37. El-Kassaby, Y.A. and K. Ritland. 1986. The relationship of outcrossing rate to reproductive phenology and supplemental mass pollination in a Douglas-fir seed Orchard. Silvae Genetica 35: 240-244. (38)

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