Selected Research Publications
Fehlberg, S.D., K.A. Ford, M.C. Ungerer, and C.J. Ferguson. 2008. Development, characterization and transferability of microsatellite markers for the plant genus Phlox (Polemoniaceae). Molecular Ecology Resources 8: 116-118.
Kula, R. R., G. Zolnerowich, and C. J. Ferguson. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of Chaenusa sensu lato (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) using mitochondrial NADH 1 dehydrogenase gene sequences. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 15: 251-265.
Strakosh, S.C. and C.J. Ferguson. 2005. Pollination biology of four southwestern species of Phlox (Polemoniaceae): insect visitation in relation to corolla tube length. The Southwestern Naturalist 50: 291-301.
Woods, T. M., S. C. Strakosh, M. P. Nepal, S. Chakrabarti, N. B. Simpson, M. H. Mayfield and C. J. Ferguson. 2005. Introduced species in Kansas: floristic changes and patterns of collection based on an historical herbarium. Sida 21: 1695-1725.
Wiggam, S. W. and C. J. Ferguson. 2005. Pollinator importance and temporal variation in a population of Phlox divaricata L. (Polemoniaceae). American Midland Naturalist 154: 42-54.
Prather, L. A., O. Alvarez-Fuentes, M. H. Mayfield and C. J. Ferguson. 2004. The decline of plant collecting in the United States: a threat to the infrastructure of biodiversity studies. Systematic Botany 29: 15-28.
Prather, L. A., O. Alvarez-Fuentes, M. H. Mayfield and C. J. Ferguson. 2004. Commentary: implications of the decline in plant collecting for systematic and floristic research. Systematic Botany 29: 216-220.
Ferguson, C. J. and R. K. Jansen. 2002. A chloroplast DNA restriction site study of eastern North American Phlox (Polemoniaceae): implications of congruence and incongruence with the ITS phylogeny. American Journal of Botany 89: 1324-1335.
Prather, L. A., C. J. Ferguson and R. K. Jansen. 2000. Polemoniaceae phylogeny and classification: implications of sequence data from the chloroplast gene ndhF. American Journal of Botany 87: 1300-1308.
Ferguson, C. J., F. Krämer and R. K. Jansen. 1999. Relationships of eastern North American Phlox (Polemoniaceae) based on ITS sequence data. Systematic Botany 24: 616-631.
Ferguson, C. J., D. A. Levin and R. K. Jansen. 1999. Natural hybridization between an outcrossing and a selfing Phlox (Polemoniaceae): the maternal species of F1 hybrids. Plant Systematics and Evolution 218: 153-158.
