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64
Citations
10901
World Ranking
1907
National Ranking
695

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Lynda F. Delph is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and focuses on research primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Insect Science.

The main topics explored in their work span:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Recent papers include:

  • "Evolvability and trait function predict phenotypic divergence of plant populations" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Herbivore-mediated negative frequency-dependent selection underlies a trichome dimorphism in nature" (2020) published in Evolution Letters
  • "The Silene latifolia genome and its giant Y chromosome" (2025) published in Science
  • "Observational evidence of herbivore-specific associational effects between neighboring conspecifics in natural, dimorphic populations of Datura wrightii" (2021) published in Ecology and Evolution
  • "TheSilene latifoliagenome and its giant Y chromosome" (2023) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent coauthors of Lynda F. Delph are:

  • Carol Moraga
  • Catarina Branco
  • Quentin Rougemont
  • Pavel Jedlička
  • Eddy Mendoza-Galindo

Most publications by this scientist have appeared in the following venues:

  • Evolution Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Lynda F. Delph has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2010.

They were also named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Gender and sexual dimorphism in flowering plants

    Monica A. Geber;Todd E. Dawson;Lynda F. Delph

  • On the Importance of Male Fitness in Plants: Patterns of Fruit-Set

    Steve Sutherland;Lynda F. Delph

  • Sexual Dimorphism in Life History

    Lynda F. Delph

  • Extensive variation in synonymous substitution rates in mitochondrial genes of seed plants

    Jeffrey P Mower;Jeffrey P Mower;Pascal Touzet;Julie S Gummow;Lynda F Delph

  • Sex-Differential Resource Allocation Patterns in the Subdioecious Shrub Hebe Subalpina

    Lynda F. Delph

  • HOW ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECT POLLEN PERFORMANCE: ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES

    Lynda F. Delph;Magnus H. Johannsson;Andrew G. Stephenson

  • The relative importance of reproductive assurance and automatic selection as hypotheses for the evolution of self-fertilization

    Jeremiah W. Busch;Lynda F. Delph

  • Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution.

    G. Bernasconi;J. Antonovics;A. Biere;Deborah Charlesworth

  • About PAR: The distinct evolutionary dynamics of the pseudoautosomal region

    Sarah P. Otto;John R. Pannell;Catherine L. Peichel;Tia-Lynn Ashman

  • Pattern and process: evidence for the evolution of photosynthetic traits in natural populations

    Michele A. Arntz;Lynda F. Delph

  • On the importance of balancing selection in plants.

    Lynda F. Delph;John K. Kelly

  • Sexual dimorphism in flower size

    Lynda F. Delph;Laura F. Galloway;Maureen L. Stanton

  • Evolutionary consequences of gender plasticity in genetically dimorphic breeding systems

    Lynda F. Delph;Diana E. Wolf

  • Trait selection in flowering plants: how does sexual selection contribute?

    Lynda F. Delph;Tia-Lynn Ashman

  • Flower Size Dimorphism in Plants with Unisexual Flowers

    Lynda F. Delph

  • Genetic constraints on floral evolution in a sexually dimorphic plant revealed by artificial selection.

    Lynda F. Delph;Janet L. Gehring;Frank M. Frey;A. Michele Arntz

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  • The Geographic Mosaic of Sex and the Red Queen

    Kayla C. King;Lynda F. Delph;Jukka Jokela;Jukka Jokela;Curtis M. Lively

  • The effect of petal-size manipulation on pollen removal, seed set, and insect-visitor behavior in Campanula americana.

    S. G. Johnson;L. F. Delph;C. L. Elderkin

  • Host Sex and Local Adaptation by Parasites in a Snail‐Trematode Interaction

    Curtis M. Lively;Mark F. Dybdahl;Jukka Jokela;Erik E. Osnas

  • Report The Geographic Mosaic of Sex and the Red Queen

    Kayla C. King;Lynda F. Delph;Jukka Jokela;Curtis M. Lively

  • REVIEW: PART OF A SPECIAL ISSUE ON PLANT MATING SYSTEMS The relative importance of reproductive assurance and automatic selection as hypotheses for the evolution of self-fertilization

    Jeremiah W. Busch;Lynda F. Delph

Frequent Co-Authors

Curtis M. Lively
Curtis M. Lively Indiana University
Jukka Jokela
Jukka Jokela Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Pia Mutikainen
Pia Mutikainen ETH Zurich
David G. Lloyd
David G. Lloyd University of Canterbury
Edmund D. Brodie
Edmund D. Brodie University of Virginia
Peter T. Raimondi
Peter T. Raimondi University of California, Santa Cruz
Tia-Lynn Ashman
Tia-Lynn Ashman University of Pittsburgh
Deborah Charlesworth
Deborah Charlesworth University of Edinburgh
Thomas R. Meagher
Thomas R. Meagher University of St Andrews
John R. Pannell
John R. Pannell University of Basel

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