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Ballard, J.W.O. 1997-2003. Host-endosymbiont co-evolution and host speciation: Wolbachia pipientis and Drosophila simulans. National Science Foundation (NSF) Population Biology CAREER grant and Creativity Extension.. Grant No. DEB-9702824 $525,000.

Patterson, B.D., D.F. Stotz, and J.W.O. Ballard. 1998-2001. Studies of mammals, birds and their ectoparasites along an elevational gradient in southeastern Peru. National Science Foundation (NSF) Biotic Surveys and Inventory. $239,000.

Richardson, B.J., J.L. Lawrence, B. Moore, C. Reid and J.W.O. Ballard. 1995-1998. The use of 12S rRNA sequences for testing selected phylogenetic hypotheses involving Coleoptera and the development of methods of DNA analysis. Australian Research Council Grant. $120,000.

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Schizas, N., R.R. Hudson and J.W.O. Ballard. 1999-2000. Investigation of the type I error rates and power of six statistical tests of the neutral theory of molecular evolution. Sloan DOE Postdoctoral Fellowship. $100,000.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1998-1999. BugCamp: Biodiversity for 7th and 8th grades. Nancy Ryerson Ranney Leadership Grants program. $13,808.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1997. Introduction of High-School Students to Biochemistry. Perkin-Elmer. $8,400.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1997. BugCamp: Biodiversity for 7th and 8th grades. Nancy Ryerson Ranney Leadership Grants program. $2,874.

Newton, A.F., M. Thayer and J.W.O. Ballard. 1997. High School Summer Interns in Insects. NSF RAMHSS Program. Grant No. DEB-9527968, Amendment No. 002. $5,581.

Dean M.D. and J.W.O. Ballard. 2001. Factors affecting mitochondrial DNA quality from museum preserved Drosophila simulans. Entomol. Exp. Applic.

Steinbacks, J.C., N.V. Schizas, and J. W.O. Ballard. 2001. Efficiency of different genes and accuracy of different methods in recovering a known Drosophila genealogy. Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. pp 606-617.

James, A.C. and J.W.O. Ballard. 2000. The expression of cytoplasmic incompatibility and its impact on population frequencies and the distribution of Wolbachia strains in Drosophila simulans. Evolution 54: 1661-1672

Ballard, J.W.O. 2000. Comparative genomics of mitochondrial DNA in Drosophila simulans. J. Mol. Evol. 51: 64-75.

Ballard, J.W.O. 2000. Comparative genomics of mitochondrial DNA in members of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. J. Mol. Evol. 51: 48-63.

Ballard, J.W.O. 2000. When one is not enough: Introgression in Drosophila. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17: 1126-1130.

Shuster, S.M., J.W.O. Ballard, G. Zinser, C. Sassaman, and P. Keim. 2000. The influence of genetic and extrachromosomal factors on population sex ratio in the marine isopod, Paracerceis sculpta (Holmes). Proceedings of the second international conference on Isopod biology, R.C. Brusca and B. Kensley (eds), Balkema Press, Amsterdam.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1998. Evolutionary rate variation within the mitochondrial DNA of Drosophila simulans. Current Topics of Molecular Evolution. Proceedings of the 1997 US/ Germany/ Japan TriNational Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Munich, Germany. Pp. 25-36.

Ballard, J.W.O., M.K. Thayer, A.F. Newton and E.R. Grismer. 1998. Data sets, partitions and characters: Philosophies and procedures for analyzing multiple data sets. Syst. Biol. 47: 367-396.

Brust, R.A. , J.W.O. Ballard, F. Driver, D.M. Hartley, N.J. Galway and J. Curran. 1998. Molecular systematics and hybrid crossing identify a third taxon, Aedes (Halaedes) wardangensis sp.n., of the Aedes (Halaedes) australis species group (Diptera: Culicidae). Can. J. Zool. 76:1236-1246.

Patterson, B.D., J.W.O. Ballard and R.L. Wenzel. 1998. Distributional evidence for cospeciation between neotropical bats and their bat fly extoparasites. Stud. Neotrop. Fauna & Environm. 33: 76-84.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1996. Combining data in phylogenetic analysis. TREE 11: 334.

Ballard, J.W.O. and N.J. Galway. 1996. Assessing evolutionary hypotheses generated from mitochondrial DNA: inferences from Drosophila. In: Floyd, R.B., A.W. Sheppard and P.J. DeBarro (eds) Frontiers of Population Ecology. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia pp. 473-483.

Ballard, J.W.O., J. Hatzidakis, T.L. Karr and M. Kreitman. 1996. Reduced variation in Drosophila simulans mitochondrial DNA. Genetics 144: 1519-1528.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1995. Data on the Web. Science 270: 13-14.

Ballard, J.W.O. and M. Kreitman, 1995. Is mitochondrial DNA a strictly neutral marker? TREE 10: 485-488.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1994. Evidence from 12S ribosomal RNA resolves a morphological conundrum in Austrosimulium (Diptera: Simuliidae). J. Aust. Ent. Soc. 33: 131-135.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1994. Phylogenetic affinities of Axinia (Diptera: Axiniidae) as inferred from 12S rRNA sequences pp. 528-534. Appendix to: D.H. Colless, "New family of muscoid Diptera, with sixteen new species in four new genera (Diptera: Axiniidae)." Invert. Zool. 8: 471-534.

Ballard, J.W.O. and M. Kreitman. 1994. Unraveling selection in the mitochondrial genome of Drosophila. Genetics 138: 757-772.

Curran, J., F. Driver, J.W.O. Ballard and R.J. Milner. 1994. Phylogeny of Metarhyzium: Sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer and 5.8S region of the ribosomal DNA repeat. Mycol. Res. 98: 547-552.

Faith, D.P. and J.W.O. Ballard. 1994. Length differences and topology-dependent tests: A response to Kallersjo et al. Cladistics 10: 57-64.

Elder, R.J. and J.W.O. Ballard. 1993. Blackflies and the Rockhampton floods. Bull. Mosq. Cont. Assoc. Aust. 5:11-19.

Ballard, J.W.O. and R.J. Elder. 1992. Monitoring blackfly (Diptera: Simuliidae) pests. J. Aust. Ent. Soc. 31: 263-270.

Ballard, J.W.O., G.J. Olsen, D.P. Faith, W.A. Odgers, D.M. Rowell, and P.W. Atkinson. 1992. Evidence from 12S ribosomal RNA that onychophorans are modified arthropods. Science 258: 1345-1348.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1991. Colonization of perspex strips by larvae of Austrosimulium bancrofti (Taylor) (Diptera: Simuliidae), near Willawarin, New South Wales. Aust. J. Zool. 39: 201-210.

Ballard, J.W.O. and D.G. Bedo. 1991. Population cytogenetics of Austrosimulium bancrofti (Taylor) (Diptera: Simuliidae) in eastern Australia. Genome 34: 338-353.

Ballard, J.W.O., M.P. Zalucki. and K.E. Basford. 1991. Colonization of perspex strips by larvae of Austrosimulium bancrofti (Taylor) (Diptera: Simuliidae), near Ipswich, Queensland. Hydrobiologia 218: 255-263.

Ballard, J.W.O. and K.J. Morton. 1990. Populational differences in the trap- and host-finding behavior of Austrosimulium bancrofti (Taylor) (Diptera: Simuliidae) in eastern Australia. Can. J. Zool. 68: 579-584.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1989. Factors influencing silhouette trap captures of the blackfly Austrosimulium bancrofti (Taylor) (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the Australian Capital Territory. Bull. Ent. Res. 79: 421-428.

Ballard, J.W.O. 1988. A simple technique for sexing blackfly larvae of the taxon Austrosimulium bancrofti. Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 82: 478.

Ballard, J.W.O. and A. Barnes. 1988. Factors influencing silhouette trap captures of the blackfly Austrosimulium bancrofti in Queensland, Australia. Med. Vet. Entomol. 2: 371-378.

Ballard, J.W.O. and J.K. Waage. 1988. Feeding strategies of the horseflies Hybomitra expollicata and Tabanus bromius in southern France. Med. Vet. Entomol. 2: 265-270.

Ballard, J.W.O. and I.D. Marshall. 1986. An investigation of the potential of Aedes camptorhynchus (Thom.) as a vector of Ross River virus. Aust. J. Exp. Biol. Med. Sci. 64: 197-200.

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