Selected Publications

Rains, D., H. Weimerskirch and T.M. Burg (in press) Piecing together the global population puzzle of wandering albatrosses: Genetic anaylsis of the Amsterdam albatross. Journal of Avian Biology.

Burg, T.M. (2008) Genetic analysis of wandering albatrosses killed in longline fisheries off the east coast of New Zealand. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystes 17:S93-S101.

Burg, T.M. (2007) Phylogeography of chestnut-backed chickadees in western North America. In: Ecology and Behavior of Chickadees and Titmice (ed. Ken Otter).

Friesen, V.L., T.M. Burg and K.M. McCoy (2007) Mechanisms of population differentiation in seabirds. Molecular Ecology 16:1765-1785.

Burg, T.M., A.J. Gaston, K. Winker and V.L. Friesen (2006) Effects of Pleistocene glaciations on population structure of North American chestnut-backed chickadees. Molecular Ecology 15:2409-2419.

Burg, T.M. and J.P. Croxall (2006) Extrapair paternities in black-browed Thalassarche melanophris, grey-headed T. chrysostoma and wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans at South Georgia. Journal of Avian Biology 37:331-338.

Burg, T.M., A.J. Gaston, K. Winker and V.L. Friesen (2005) Rapid divergence and postglacial colonization in western North American Steller's jays (Cyanocitta stelleri). Molecular Ecology 14:3745-3755. pdf

Burg, T.M. and J.P. Croxall (2004) Global population structure and taxonomy of the wandering albatross species complex. Molecular Ecology 13:2345-2355. pdf

Burg, T.M., J. Lomax, R. Almond, M. de L. Brooke and W. Amos (2003) Unraveling dispersal patterns in an expanding population of a highly mobile seabird, the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 270(1518):979-984. pdf

Smith, H.M., T.M. Burg and D. Chiszar (2002) Evolutionary speciation in the alligator lizards of the genus Barisia. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 38(1):23-26.

Burg, T.M. and J.P. Croxall (2001) Global relationships amongst black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses: analysis of population structure using mtDNA and microsatellites. Molecular Ecology 10(11):2647-2660. pdf

Amos, W., J. Worthington Wilmer, K. Fullard, T.M. Burg, J.P. Croxall, D. Bloch and T. Coulson (2001) The influence of parental relatedness on reproductive success. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 268(1480):2021-2027. pdf

Moore, P.J., T.M. Burg, G.A. Taylor and C.D. Millar (2001) Provenance and sex-ratio of black-browed albatrosses D. m. melanophris breeding on Campbell Island. Emu 101(4):329-334. pdf

Burg, T.M., A.W. Trites and M.J. Smith (1999) Mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA analyses of harbour seal population structure in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77(6):930-943. pdf