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Lowenstein JH, Amato G, Kolokotronis SO. (2009) The real maccoyii: identifying tuna sushi with DNA barcodes – contrasting characteristic attributes and genetic distances. PLoS ONE 4(11):e7866. {Rockefeller BoL blog}

Roca AL, Ishida Y, Nikolaidis N, Kolokotronis SO, Fratpietro S, Stewardson K, Hensley S, Tisdale M, Boeskorov G, Greenwood AD. (2009) Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:232.

Eaton MJ, Meyers GL, Kolokotronis SO, Leslie MS, Martin AP, Amato G. (2009) Barcoding bushmeat: molecular identification of Central African and South American harvested vertebrates. Conservation Genetics [in press] {GenomeWeb} {Conservation Magazine} {New Scientist} {Scientific American} {n p r} {BBC}

Gonçalves da Silva A, Kolokotronis SO, Wharton D. (2009) Modeling the eradication of invasive mammals using the sterile male technique. Biological Invasions [in press]

Schierwater B, Kolokotronis SO, Eitel M, DeSalle R. (2009) The Diploblast-Bilateria Sister hypothesis: parallel evolution of a nervous system may have been a simple step. Communicative and Integrative Biology 2(5):1-3.

de la Torre-Bárcena JE, Kolokotronis SO, Lee EK, Stevenson DW, Brenner ED, Katari MS, Coruzzi GM, DeSalle R. (2009) The impact of outgroup choice and missing data on major seed plant phylogenetics using genome-wide EST data. PLoS ONE 4(6):e5764.

Schierwater B, Eitel M, Jakob W, Osigus HJ, Hadrys H, Dellaporta SL, Kolokotronis SO, DeSalle R. (2009) Concatenated analysis sheds light on early metazoan evolution and fuels a modern "urmetazoon" hypothesis. PLoS Biology 7(1):e1000020. {Suppl. Mat.} {MSNBC} {Nature News} {LiveScience} {Discovery Channel News} {Wired Science} {GenomeWeb} {ScienceDaily} {ScientificBlogging}

Wyatt KB, Campos PF, Gilbert MT, Kolokotronis SO, Hynes WH, DeSalle R, Daszak P, MacPhee RD, Greenwood AD. (2008) Historical mammal extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) correlates with introduced infectious disease. PLoS ONE 3(11):e3602. {Suppl. Mat.} {ScienceNOW} {Discovery Channel News} {ScienceDaily}

Krause J, Unger T, Noçon A, Malaspinas AS, Kolokotronis SO, Stiller M, Soibelzon L, Spriggs H, Dear PH, Briggs AH, Bray SE, O'Brien SJ, Rabeder G, Matheus P, Cooper A, Slatkin M, Pääbo S, Hofreiter M. (2008) Mitochondrial genomes reveal an explosive radiation of extinct and extant bears near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:220. {Suppl. Mat.} {Science News}

Baillie GJ, Kolokotronis SO, Waltari E, Maffei JG, Kramer LD, Perkins SL. (2008) Phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses of St. Louis encephalitis virus genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2):717-728. {ScienceDaily} {Genome Technology}

Ho SYW, Kolokotronis SO, Allaby RG. (2007) Elevated substitution rates estimated from ancient DNA sequences. Biology Letters 3(6):702-705. {Suppl. Mat.}

Kolokotronis SO, MacPhee RDE, Greenwood AD. (2007) Detection of mitochondrial insertions in the nucleus (NuMts) of Pleistocene and modern muskoxen. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:67.

Amor DC, Kolokotronis SO, Medellín RA, Ramey Jr. R, Ryder OA. (2005) Genética de la conservación. In: El Berrendo en México, Acciones de conservación. Valdes M, de la Cruz E, Peters E, Pallares E, Editors. Agrupación Sierra Madre & Instituto Nacional de Ecología (INE-SEMARNAT), México DF. pp. 27-33.

Shykoff JA, Kolokotronis SO, Collin CL, López-Villavicencio M. (2003) Effects of male sterility on reproductive traits in gynodioecious plants: A meta-analysis. Oecologia 135(1):1-9.

Theses
Kolokotronis SO. (2008) Molecular evolution of Elephantidae and their tuberculosis pathogens. PhD thesis. Columbia University. 147 p.

Kolokotronis SO. (2000) Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Greek Mediterranean Sea: population genetic structure analysis by means of microsatellite DNA markers. Maîtrise thesis. Université Paris-Sud XI & University of Crete. 37 p.

Posters & Talks
Planet PJ, Pang PS, Kolokotronis SO, GLenn JS (2008) Evolution of interferon therapy resistance in hepatitis C virus. Poster and abstract presented at the 13^th International Congress on Infectious Diseases, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (19-22 June) International Journal of Infectious Diseases 12(1), e429-e430.

Kolokotronis SO. (2008) Evolution and genetic admixture of elephant tuberculosis. Oral presentation at the 9^th International Meeting "Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases" (MEEGID IX), University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA (30 Oct-1 Nov)

Kolokotronis SO, Harris BN, Payeur J, DeSalle R. (2008) Molecular evolutionary dynamics of elephant tuberculosis. Poster and abstract presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Barcelona, Spain (5-8 June)

Kolokotronis SO. (2008) Molecular evolution of elephant tuberculosis. Oral presentation at the NYC Area Symposium on Microbial Evolution & Genomics, Department of Medical Parasitology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA (24 January)

Kolokotronis SO, Amor D, Ramey Jr R, Medellín RA, Ryder OA. (2005) Mitochondrial phylogeography and subspecific taxonomy of pronghorns. Poster and abstract presented at the 2^nd International Conference in Conservation Genetics "ConGen2", Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA (25-28 September)

Wharton D, Gonçalves da Silva A, Kolokotronis SO. (2004) Modeling the eradication of invasive mammals using the Sterile Male Technique. Oral presentation by D. Wharton at the 18^th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (31 July)

Kolokotronis SO. (2004) African Elephant Molecular Systematics. Oral presentation at the Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Monthly Seminar. Dept. de Genètica, Fac. de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (25 June)

Kolokotronis SO, Shykoff JA, Collin CL, López-Villavicencio M. (2004) Effects of male sterility on reproductive traits in gynodioecious plants: A meta-analysis. Poster and abstract presented at the Symposium "Building Bridges: Integrating Approaches to Evolutionary Biology", Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA (6 March)

Kolokotronis SO. (2002) Ecological & conservation genetics of African forest elephants. Oral presentation at The Explorers Club, New York, NY, USA (23 September)

Kolokotronis SO, Ladoukakis E, Zouros E. (2002) Loggerhead turtles in the Eastern Mediterranean: conservation genetics. Poster and abstract presented at the Student Conference on Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK (25-27 March)