Petren, K., Bolger, D.T. & Case, T.J. (1993) Mechanisms in the competitive success of an invading sexual gecko species over an asexual native. Science 259:  354-358. [pdf]

Case, T.J., Bolger, D.T. & Petren, K. (1994) Invasions and competitive displacement among house geckos in the tropical Pacific. Ecology 75: 464-477. [pdf]

Irschick, D.J., Austin, C.C., Petren, K., Losos, J.B. & Ellers, O. (1996) A comparative analysis of clinging ability among pad-bearing lizards. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 59: 2-35. [pdf]

Petren, K., & Case, T.J. (1996) An experimental demonstration of exploitation competition in an ongoing invasion. Ecology 77: 118-132. [pdf]

Petren, K. & Case, T.J. (1997) A phylogenetic analysis of body size evolution in chuckwallas (Sauromalus) and other iguanines. Evolution 51: 206-219. [pdf]

Hanley, K.A., Petren, K. & Case, T.J. (1998) An experimental investigation of the competitive displacement of a native gecko by an invading gecko: no role for parasites. Oecologia 115: 196-205. [pdf]

Petren, K. (1998) Microsatellite primers from Geospiza fortis and cross-species amplification in Darwin’s finches. Molecular Ecology 7: 1782-1784. [pdf]

Petren, K. & Case, T.J. (1998) Habitat structure determines competition intensity and invasion success in gecko lizards. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA: 95(20): 11739-11744. [pdf]

Petren, K., Grant, B.R.  & Grant , P.R. (1999) Low extra-pair paternity in the Cactus Finch (Geospiza scandens) The Auk 116: 252-256. [pdf]

Petren, K., Grant, B.R. & Grant, P.R. (1999) A phylogeny of Darwin’s finches based on microsatellite DNA length variation. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 266: 321-329. [pdf]

Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R. & Petren, K. (2000) The allopatric phase of speciation: the sharp-beaked ground finch (Geospiza difficilis) on the Galápagos islands.  Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 69: 287-317. [pdf]

Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R., Keller, L.F. & Petren, K. (2000) Effects of El Niño events on Darwin’s finch reproduction. Ecology 81: 2442-2457. [pdf]

Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R. & Petren, K. (2000) Songs and the origin of Darwin’s finches. Ibis 142: 680-682.

Petren, K. (2001) The concepts of the habitat and the niche.  In: The Encyclopedia of Biodiversity.  S. A. Levin, Ed. Academic Press, San Diego. pp. 303-315. [pdf]

Montanucci, R.R., H. M. Smith, K. Adler, D. L. Auth, R. W. Axtell, T. J. Case, D. Chisar, J. T. Collins, R. Conant, R. Murphy, K. Petren & Stebbins, R. C. (2001) Euphryne obesus Baird, 1858 (Reptilia, Squamata): proposed precedence of the specific name over that of Sauromalus ater Dúmeril, 1856. Bull. Zool. Nomenclature 58: 37-40.

Keller, L. F., Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R. & Petren, K. (2001) Heritability of morphological traits in Darwin’s finches: misidentified paternity and maternal effects. Heredity 87: 325-336. [pdf]

Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R. & Petren, K. (2001) A population founded by a single pair of individuals.  Genetica 112/113: 359-382. [pdf]

Keller, L.F., P.R. Grant, BR. Grant & Petren, K. (2002) Environmental conditions affect the magnitude of inbreeding depression in survival of Darwin's finches. Evolution 56: 1229-1239. [pdf]

Mayer, A., K. Petren, A. Shelton, M. J. Cramer, B. Keane, J. Markert, B. Heath, E. Maurer, A. Roberts & Tonnis, B. (2002) Response to Sutherland et al.: Scaling of natal dispersal distances in terrestrial birds and mammals. Conservation Ecology  6(1): r8. [link]

Petren, K. & Case, T.J. (2002) An updated mtDNA phylogeny for Sauromalus and implications for the evolution of gigantism. In: Case, T.J. & Cody, M.L., eds. Island Biogeography in the Sea of Corts: Second edition. University California Press, Berkeley. [pdf]

Gee, J., Calkins, J.D. & Petren, K. (2003) Characterization of microsatellites from two  quail, Callipepla californica and C. gambeli.  Molecular Ecology Notes  3: 35-36. [pdf]

Wilmhoff, C. D., Csepeggi, C. E. & Petren, K. (2003) Characterization of dinucleotide microsatellite markers in the parthenogenetic mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris). Molecular Ecology Notes 3: 400-402. [pdf]

Grant, P.R., B.R. Grant, L.F. Keller , J.A. Markert & Petren, K. (2003) Inbreeding and interbreeding of Darwin's finches. Evolution 57: 2911-2916. [pdf]

Markert, J.A., Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R., Keller, L.F., Coombs, J.L. & Petren, K. (2004) Neutral locus heterozygosity, inbreeding and survival in Darwin's ground finches (Geospiza fortis and G. scandens). Heredity 92: 306-315. [pdf]

Grant, P.R., B.R. Grant, L.F. Keller , J.A. Markert & Petren, K. (2004) Convergent evolution of Darwin's finches caused by introgressive hybridization and selection. Evolution 58: 1588-1599. [pdf]

Grant, P.R., B.R. Grant, K. Petren & Keller, L. F.  (2004) Extinction behind our backs: the possible fate of one of the Darwin’s finch species on Isla Floreana, Galápagos. Biological Conservation 122: 499-503. [pdf]

Tonnis, B., Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R. & Petren, K. (2005) Habitat selection and ecological speciation in the Galápagos warbler finches Certhidea fusca and C. olivacea. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 272: 819-826. [pdf]

Grant, P.R., Grant, B.R. & Petren, K. (2005) Hybridization in the recent past. American Naturalist 166: 56-67. [pdf]

Petren, K., Grant, B.R. & Grant, P.R. & Keller, L.F. (2005). Comparative landscape genetics and the adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches: the role of peripheral isolation. Molecular Ecology 14: 2943-2957. [pdf]

Dame, E. A. & Petren, K.(2006). Behavioral mechanisms of invasion and displacement in Pacific Island geckos (Hemidactylus). Animal Behaviour 71: 1165-73. [pdf]