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Cockburn SN, Haselkorn TS, Hamilton PT, Landzberg E, Jaenike J, Perlman SJ. 2013. Dynamics of the continent-wide spread of a Drosophila defensive symbiont. Ecology Letters. In Press. doi:10.1111/ele.12087.

Haselkorn TS, Cockburn SN, Hamilton PT, Perlman SJ , Jaenike J. 2013. Infectious adaptation: potential host range of a defensive endosymbiont in Drosophila. Evolution. In Press. doi: 10.1111/evo.12020.

Tai V, James ER, Perlman SJ, Keeling PJ. 2013. Single-Cell DNA Barcoding Using Sequences from the Small Subunit rRNA and Internal Transcribed Spacer Region Identifies New Species of Trichonympha and Trichomitopsis from the Hindgut of the Termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58728.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058728.

Taylor GP, Coghlin PC, Floate KD, and Perlman SJ. 2011. The host range of the male-killing symbiont Arsenophonus nasoniae in filth fly parasitioids. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 106: 371-379.

White JA, Kelly SE, Cockburn SN, Perlman SJ, and Hunter MS. 2011. Endosymbiont costs and benefits in a parasitoid infected with both Wolbachia and Cardinium. Heredity. 106:585-591.

Jaenike J, Unckless R, Cockburn SN, Boelio LM, and Perlman SJ. 2010. Adaptation via symbiosis: recent spread of a Drosophila defensive symbiont. Science. 329: 212-215.

Behar A, McCormick LJ, and Perlman SJ. 2010. Rickettsia felis infection in a common household insect pest, Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocoptera: Liposcelidae). Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76: 2280-2285.

Perlman SJ, Magnus SA, and Copley CR. 2010. Pervasive associations between Cybaeus spiders and the bacterial symbiont Cardinium. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 103: 150-155.

Harris LR, Kelly SE, Hunter MS, and Perlman SJ. 2010. Population dynamics and rapid spread of Cardinium, a bacterial symbiont causing cytoplasmic incompatibility in Encarsia pergandiella (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Heredity. 104: 239-246.

Copley CR, Bennett R, and Perlman SJ. 2009. Systematics of Nearctic Cybaeus (Araneae: Cybaeidae). Invertebrate Systematics. 23: 367-401

White JA, Kelly SE, Perlman SJ, and Hunter MS. 2009. Cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitic wasp Encarsia inaron: disentangling the roles of Cardinium and Wolbachia symbionts. Heredity. 102: 483-489.

Perlman SJ, Kelly SE, and Hunter MS. 2008. Population biology of cytoplasmic incompatibility: maintenance and spread of Cardinium symbionts in a parasitic wasp. Genetics 178: 1003-1011.

Perlman SJ, Kelly SE, Zchori-Fein E, and Hunter MS. 2006. Cytoplasmic incompatibility and multiple symbiont infection in the ash whitefly parasitoid, Encarsia inaron. Biological Control. 39: 474-480.

Perlman SJ, Zchori-Fein E, and Hunter MS. 2006. The emerging diversity of Rickettsia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 273: 2097-2106.

Zchori-Fein E and Perlman SJ. 2004. Distribution of the bacterial symbiont Cardinium in arthropods. Molecular Ecology. 13: 2009-2016.

Zchori-Fein E, Perlman SJ, Kelly SE, Katzir N, and Hunter MS. 2004. Characterization of a Bacteroidetes symbiont in Encarsia wasps (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae): Proposal of 'Candidatus Cardinium hertigii'. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54: 961-968.

Hunter MS, Perlman SJ, and Kelly SE. 2003. A bacterial symbiont in the Bacteroidetes induces cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitoid wasp Encarsia pergandiella. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 270: 2185-2190.

Perlman SJ and Jaenike J. 2003. Infection success in novel hosts: an experimental and phylogenetic analysis of Drosophila-parasitic nematodes. Evolution 57: 544-557.

Perlman SJ and Jaenike J. 2003. Evolution of multiple components of virulence in Drosophila-parasitic nematode associations. Evolution 57: 1543-1551.

Perlman SJ, Spicer GS, Shoemaker DD, and Jaenike J. 2003. Associations between mycophagous Drosophila and their parasitic nematodes: a worldwide phylogenetic shuffle. Molecular Ecology. 12: 237-249.

Jaenike J and Perlman SJ. 2002. Evolution and ecology of a host-parasite association: mycophagous Drosophila and their parasitic nematodes. American Naturalist. 160: S23-S39.

Perlman SJ and Jaenike J. 2001. Competitive interactions and persistence of two nematodes parasitizing Drosophila recens. Ecology Letters. 4: 277-284.