Submitted and in press
- Bazzicalupo, A., Whitton, J. and M.L. Berbee. Over the hills, but how far away? Estimates of mushroom geographic range extents. (resubmitted)
- Westwood, A., S.P. Otto, A.O. Mooers, C. Darimont, K. Hodges, C. Johnson, B. Starzomski, C. Burton, K. Chan, M. Festa-Bianchet, S. Fluker, S. Gulati, A. Jacob, D. Kraus, T. Martin, W. Palin, J. Reynolds, J. Whitton. 2019. Protecting Biodiversity in British Columbia: Recommendations for Developing Species at Risk Legislation. Facets (in press)
- Whitton, J., Sears, C.J. and W.P. Maddison. 2017. Co-occurrence of asexual, but not sexual, lineages suggests that reproductive interference limits coexistence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences.
- Kuzmina, ML., W.A. Thomas, A. Braukmann,… J. Whitton, and 23 others. 2017. Using herbarium-derived DNAs to assemble a large-scale DNA barcode library for the vascular plants of Canada. Applications in Plant Science 5: 11pp.
- Hersh, E.W., J. Grimm and J. Whitton. 2016. Attack of the clones: Reproductive interference between sexuals and asexuals in the Crepis agamic complex. Ecology and Evolution doi 10.1002/ece3.2353, pp. 1-11.
- Sears, C.J. and J. Whitton. 2016. A reexamination of the North American Crepis agamic complex and comparison with the findings of Babcock and Stebbins’ classic biosystematics monograph. American Journal of Botany 103: 1289-1299 doi: 10.3732/ajb.1600057. (Invited contribution for the special issue: The evolutionary importance of polyploidy)
- McCune, J., W.L. Harrower, S. Avery-Gomm, J.M. Brogan, A.-M. Csergo, L.N.K. Davidson, A. Garani, L.R. Halpin, L.P.J. Lipsen, C. Lee, J.C. Nelson, L. R. Prugh, C. M. Stinson, C.K. Whitney and J. Whitton. 2013. Threats to Canadian species at risk: an analysis of finalized recovery strategies. Biological Conservation 166: 254-265
- Lipsen, L.P.J., C. Lee, and J. Whitton. 2013. Genetic and ecological differences between two Utah endemics: U. S. federally threatened Townsendia aprica and its close congener, T. jonesii var. lutea (Asteraceae). Botany 91: 242-250
- Mooers, A. Ø., D.F. Doak, C.S. Findlay, D.M. Green, C. Grouios, L.L. Manne, A. Rashvand, M.A. Rudd, and J. Whitton. 2010. Science, policy and species at risk in Canada. Bioscience 60: 843-849.
- Leander, C.A. and J. Whitton. 2009. Bling my research! A mock grant panel activity illustrating the importance of basic research. American Biology Teacher 72(5): 308-310.
- Whitton J., K.M. Dlugosch and C.J. Sears. 2008. Molecular and morphological evidence for and against gene flow in sympatric apomicts of the North American Crepis agamic complex (Asteraceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 86(8): 877-885. (Invited contribution for the special issue: Plant systematics at the species level)
- Whitton, J., C.J. Sears, E.J. Baack, and S.P. Otto. 2008. The dynamic nature of apomixis in the angiosperms. International Journal of Plant Sciences 169: 169-182. (Invited contribution for the special issue: Major Evolutionary Transitions in Flowering Plant Reproduction)
- Thompson, S.L., G. Choe, K. Ritland and J. Whitton. 2008. Cryptic sex within male sterile polyploid populations of the Easter daisy, Townsendia hookeri. International Journal of Plant Sciences 169: 183-193. (Invited contribution for the special issue: Major Evolutionary Transitions in Flowering Plant Reproduction)
- Saarela, J.M., L. Lipsen, C.M. Sayre, and J. Whitton. 2007. Vascular plant type specimens in the University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. 1: 437-448.
- Thompson, S.L., and J. Whitton. 2006. Patterns of recurrent evolution and geographic parthenogenesis within apomictic Easter daisies (Townsendia hookeri). Molecular Ecology 15:3389-3400.
- Ryall, K., J. Whitton, W.B. Schofield, S. Ellis and A.J. Shaw. 2005. Molecular phylogenetic study of interspecific variation in the moss Isothecium (Brachytheciaceae). Systematic Botany 30(2): 242-247.
- Rajakaruna, N. and J. Whitton. 2004. Trends in the evolution of edaphic specialists with an example of parallel evolution in the Lasthenia californica complex. In Plant Adaptation: Molecular Genetics and Ecology. Edited by Q.C.B. Cronk, J. Whitton, R.H. Ree and I.E.P. Taylor. NRC Press, Ottawa, Ontario. Pp. 103-110.
- Rajakaruna, N., G. D. Bradfield, B. A. Bohm, and J. Whitton. 2003. Differential responses to water stress by edaphic races of Lasthenia californica (Asteraceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 164: 371-376
- Rajakaruna, N., B.G. Baldwin, R. Chan, A.M. Desrochers, B.A. Bohm and J. Whitton. 2003. Edaphic races and phylogenetic taxa in the Lasthenia californica complex (Asteraceae: Heliantheae): An hypothesis of parallel evolution. Molecular Ecology 12: 1675-1679.
- Rajakaruna, N., M.Y. Siddiqi, J. Whitton, B.A. Bohm and A.D.M. Glass. 2003. Differential response to Na+/K+ and Ca2+/ Mg2+ in two edaphic races of the Lasthenia californica (Asteraceae) complex: A case for parallel evolution of physiological traits. New Phytologist 157: 93-103.
- Rundle, H.D., F. Breden, C. Griswold, A.Ø. Mooers, R. A. Vos and J. Whitton. 2001. Hybridization without guilt: gene flow and the biological species concept. J. Evol. Biol. 14(6): 868-869.
- Otto, S.P., and J. Whitton. 2000. Incidence and patterns of polyploidy. Invited review. Annual Review of Genetics 34: 401-437.
- Gardner, K. , A. Buerkle, J. Whitton, and L. H. Rieseberg. 2000. Inferring epistasis in wild sunflower hybrid zones. Pp. 264-279 in J.B. Wolf, E.D. Brodie III and M.J. Wade, eds. Epistasis and the Evolutionary Process. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Whitton, J. and N. Rajakaruna 2000. Plant Biodiversity. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Academic Press.
- Rieseberg, L.H., J. Whitton, and K. Gardner. 1999. Hybrid zones and the genetic architecture of a barrier to gene flow between two sunflower species. Genetics 152: 713-727.
- Holsinger, K. E., R. J. Mason-Gamer, and J. Whitton. 1999. Genes, demes and plant conservation. Pp. 23-46 in: L. F. Landweber and A. P. Dobson, eds. Genetics and the extinction of species. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
- Whitton, J., D.E. Wolf, D.M. Arias, A.A. Snow, and L.H. Rieseberg. 1997. The persistence of cultivar alleles in wild populations of sunflowers five generations after hybridization. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 95: 33-40.
- Whitton, J., L.H. Rieseberg, and M.C. Ungerer. 1997. Microsatellite loci are not conserved across the Asteraceae. Molecular Biology and Evolution 14: 204-209.
- Rieseberg, L.H., J. Whitton, and C.R. Linder. 1996. Molecular marker incongruence in plant hybrid zones and phylogenetic trees. Acta Botanica Neerlandica 45: 243-262.
- Whitton, J., R.S. Wallace, and R.K. Jansen. 1995. Phylogenetic relationships and patterns of character change in the tribe Lactuceae (Asteraceae) based on chloroplast DNA restriction site variation. Can. J. Bot. 73: 1058-1073.
- Pigliucci, M., J. Whitton, and C.D. Schlichting. 1995. Reaction norms of Arabidopsis. I. Plasticity of characters and correlations across water, nutrient and light gradients. J. Evol. Biol. 8: 421-438.
- Pigliucci, M., C.D. Schlichting, and J. Whitton. 1995. Reaction norms of Arabidopsis. II. Response to stress and unordered environmental variation. Functional Ecology 9: 537-547.
- Bain, J.F. and J. Whitton. 1994. Taxonomic analysis of Senecio pauciflorus and S. indecorus (Asteraceae). Nordic J. Bot. 14: 193-199.
- Whitton, J. and J.F. Bain. 1992. An analysis of morphological variation in Senecio cymbalaria Pursh. Can. J. Bot. 70: 285-290.