Herrera, C. M., M. I. Pozo, and M. Medrano. Submitted. Yeasts in nectar of an early-blooming herb: sought by bumble bees, detrimental to plant fecundity. In review.

Pozo, M. I., M. A. Lachance, and C. M. Herrera. 2012. Nectar yeasts of two southern Spanish plants: the roles of immigration and physiological traits in community assembly. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 80, 281-293.

Herrera, C. M., M. I. Pozo, and P. Bazaga. 2011. Jack of all nectars, master of most: DNA methylation and the epigenetic basis of niche width in a flower-living yeast. Molecular Ecology. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05402.x 

Commentary: Schrey, A., and C. L. Richards. In press. Within-genotype epigenetic variation underlies the phenotypic plasticity that allows for a broad niche width. Molecular Ecology.

Herrera, C. M., M. I. Pozo, and P. Bazaga (2011) Clonality, genetic diversity and support for the diversifying selection hypothesis in natural populations of a flower-living yeast. Molecular Ecology 20, 4395-4407. Commentary: Gerstein, A., and J. S. Moore (2011) Small is the new big: assessing the population structure of microorganisms. Molecular Ecology 20, 4385-4387.

Pozo, M. I., C. M. Herrera, and P. Bazaga (2011) Species richness of yeast communities in floral nectar of southern Spanish plants. Microbial Ecology 61, 82-91.

Herrera, C. M., and M. I. Pozo (2010) Nectar yeasts warm the flowers of a winter-blooming plant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277, 1827-1834.

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Herrera, C. M., A. Canto, M. I. Pozo, and P. Bazaga (2010) Inhospitable sweetness: nectar filtering of pollinator-borne inocula leads to impoverished, phylogenetically clustered yeast communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277, 747-754.

Pozo, M. I., C. de Vega, A. Canto, and C. M. Herrera (2009) Presence of yeasts in floral nectar is consistent with the hypothesis of microbial-mediated signaling in plant-pollinator interactions. Plant Signaling & Behavior 4, 1102-1104.

Herrera, C. M., C. de Vega, A. Canto, and M. I. Pozo (2009) Yeasts in floral nectar: a quantitative survey. Annals of Botany 103: 1415-1423.