2017 Sackman, A.M., L.W. McGee, A.J. Morrison, J. Pierce, J. Anisman, H. Hamilton, S. Sanderbeck, C. Newman, and D.R. Rokyta. Mutation-driven parallel evolution during the first step of adaptation. Molecular Biology and Evolution; Submitted.
2016 McGee, L.W., A. Sackman, A.J. Morrison, J. Pierce, J. Anisman, D. Rokyta. Synergistic Pleiotropy Overrides the Costs of Complexity in Viral Adaptation. Genetics 202(1):285-95. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.181628.
2014 McGee, L.W., B.S. Caudle, A.J. Morrison, E. Aitchison, W. Yang, D. Rokyta. Payoffs, not tradeoffs, in the adaptation of a virus to ostensibly conflicting selective pressures. Strong positive selection overrides pleiotropic costs of adaptation in ssDNA bacteriophages. Plos Genetics 10: e1004611.
2013 McGee, L.W. and S.K. Remold. Pleiotropic interactions involving virulence and replication rate in experimentally evolved vesicular stomatitis viruses. Ecology and Evolutionary Research (5).
2013 McGee, L.W. and S. K. Remold. The effects of pleiotropy on the evolution of host range. University of Louisville Graduate Dissertation.