Published Articles and Reviews

2009

  • Joseph S. B., K. A. Hanley, L. Chao, and C. L. Burch. 2009. Coinfection rates in phi-6 bacteriophage are enhanced by virus-induced changes in host cells. Evolutionary Applications. 2: 24-31. link
  • Knies, J. L., J. G. Kingsolver, and C. L. Burch. 2009. Hotter Is Better and Broader: Thermal Sensitivity of Fitness in a Population of Bacteriophages. American Naturalist. 173: 419–430. link
    • Recommeded by Faculty of 1000. link
  • Watts, J. M., K. K. Dang, R. J. Gorelick, C. W. Leonard, J. W. Bess, R. Swanstrom, C. L. Burch, and K. M. Weeks. 2009. Architecture and secondary structure of an entire HIV-1 RNA genome. Nature. 460: 711-716. link
  • Harrington, P. R., et al. 2009. Cross-sectional characterization of HIV-1 env compartmentalization in cerebrospinal fluid over the full disease course. AIDS 23: 907-915. link
  • Ince, W. L., et al. 2009. Major coexisting Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 env gene subpopulations in the peripheral blood are produced by cells with similar turnover rates and show little evidence of genetic compartmentalization. Journal of Virology. 83: 4068-4080. link

2008

  • Rokyta, D. R., C. J. Beisel, P. Joyce, M. T. Ferris, C. L. Burch, H. A. Wichman. 2008. Beneficial fitness effects are not exponential for two viruses. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 67: 368-376. link
  • *Knies, J. L., *Dang, K. K., Vision, T. J., Hoffman, N. G., Swanstrom, R., and C. L. Burch. 2008. Compensatory evolution in RNA secondary structures increases substitution rate variation among sites. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25: 1778-1787. link
*Co-first authors.
  • Guyader, S., and C. L. Burch. 2008. Optimal Foraging Predicts the Ecology but Not the Evolution of Host Specialization in Bacteriophages. PLoS ONE. 3: e1946. link
  • Kwiek, J. J., E. S. Russell, K. K. Dang, C. L. Burch, V. Mwapasa, S. R. Meshnick, and R. Swanstrom. 2008. The Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 Envelope Diversity During HIV-1 Subtype C Vertical Transmission in Malawian Mother-Infant Pairs. AIDS. 22: 863-71.

2007

  • Duffy, S., C. L. Burch, and P. E. Turner. 2007. Evolution of host specificity drives reproductive isolation among RNA viruses. Evolution. 61: 2614–2622. link
  • Ferris, M. T., P. Joyce, C. L. Burch. 2007. High frequency of mutations that expand the host range of an RNA virus. Genetics. 176: 1013–1022. link
    • Recommeded by Faculty of 1000. link
  • Burch, C. L., S. Guyader, D. Samarov, and H. Shen. 2007. Experimental estimate of the abundance and effects of nearly neutral mutations in the RNA virus phi-6. Genetics. 176: 467-476. link
    • Featured in the Issue Highlights. link

2006

  • Knies, J. L., R. Izem, K. L. Supler, J. G. Kingsolver, and C. L. Burch. 2006. The genetic basis of thermal reaction norm evolution in lab and natural phage populations. PLoS Biology. 4: 1257-1264. link
  • Azevedo, B. R., R. Lohaus, S. Srinivasan, K. K. Dang & C. L. Burch. 2006. Sexual Reproduction Selects for Robustness and Negative Epistasis in Artificial Gene Networks. Nature. 440: 87-90. link
    • Research Highlighted in: Campbell, N. 2006. Evolution: The advantages of sex. Nature Reviews Genetics. 7: 240. link
  • Duffy, S., P. E. Turner, and C. L. Burch. 2006. Pleiotropic Costs of Niche Expansion in the RNA Bacteriophage phi-6. Genetics. 172: 751-757. link
  • Rokyta, D. R., C. L. Burch, S. B. Caudle, and H. A. Wichman. 2006. Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of microvirid coliphage genomes. Journal of Bacteriology. 188: 1134-1142. link

2004

  • Burch, C. L. and L. Chao. 2004. Epistasis and its relationship to canalization in the RNA virus phi-6. Genetics. 167: 559-567. link

2003

  • Burch, C. L., K. A. Hanley, and P. E. Turner. 2003. Patterns of epistasis in RNA viruses: a review of the evidence from vaccine design. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 16: 1223-1235. link

2000

  • Burch, C. L. and L. Chao. 2000. Evolvability in an RNA virus is determined by its mutational neighbourhood. Nature. 406: 625-629. link
  • Chao, L., Hanley, K. A., C. L. Burch, C. Dahlberg, and P. E. Turner. 2000. Kin selection and parasite evolution: Higher and lower virulence with hard and soft selection. Quarterly Review of Biology. 75: 261-275. link

Before 2000

  • Burch, C. L. and L. Chao. 1999. Evolution by small steps and rugged landscapes in the RNA virus phi-6. Genetics. 151: 921-927. link
    • Featured in: Whitlock, M. C. and S. P. Otto. 1999. The panda and the phage: compensatory mutations and the persistence of small populations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 14:295-296. link
  • Turner, P. E., C. L. Burch, K. A. Hanley, and L. Chao. 1999. Hybrid Frequencies confirm limit to coinfection in the RNA bacteriophage phi-6. Journal of Virology. 73: 2420-2424. link
  • Burch, C. L., R. J. Danaher, and D. C. Stein. 1997. Antigenic variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Production of multiple lipooligosaccharides. Journal of Bacteriology. 179: 982-986. link
  • Danaher, R. J., J. C. Levin, D. Arking, C. L. Burch, R. Sandlin, and D. C. Stein. 1995. Genetic Basis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lipooligosaccharide Antigenic Variation. Journal of Bacteriology. 177: 7275-7279. link