Willett, C. S. 2008. No evidence for faster male hybrid sterility in population crosses of an intertidal copepod (Tigriopus californicus). Genetica 133:129-136.

Willett, C. S. 2008. Significant variation for fitness impacts of ETS loci in hybrids between populations of Tigriopus californicus. Journal of Heredity 99:56-65.

Willett, C. S. and J. N. Berkowitz*, 2007. Viability effects and not meiotic drive cause dramatic departures from Mendelian inheritance for malic enzyme in hybrids of Tigriopus californicus populations.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:1196-1205.
            *Work part of honor’s thesis for UNC undergraduate

Willett, C. S. 2006. Deleterious epistatic interactions between electron transport system protein-coding loci in the copepod Tigriopus californicus. Genetics 173:1465-1477.
           Paper recommended by Faculty of 1000

Burton, R. S., E. C. Metz, J. M. Flowers, and C. S. Willett. 2005. Unusual structure of ribosomal DNA in the copepod Tigriopus californicus: Intergenic spacer sequences lack internal sub-repeats. Gene 344:105-113.

Willett, C. S., and R. S. Burton, 2004. Evolution of interacting proteins in the mitochondrial electron transport system in a marine copepod. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21:443-453.

Willett, C. S., and R. S. Burton, 2003. Environmental influences on epistatic interactions: viabilities of cytochrome c genotypes in interpopulation crosses. Evolution 57:2286–2292.
            Paper recommended by Faculty of 1000

Willett, C. S., and R. S. Burton, 2003. Characterization of the glutamate dehydrogenase gene and its regulation in a euryhaline copepod. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B 135: 639-646.

Willett, C. S. and R. S. Burton, 2002. Proline biosynthesis genes and their regulation under salinity stress in the euryhaline copepod Tigriopus californicus. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B 132:739-750.

Willett, C. S., and R. S. Burton, 2001. Viability of cytochrome c depends on cytoplasmic background in Tigriopus californicus. Evolution 55:1592-1599.

Willett, C. S., 2000. Evidence for directional selection acting on pheromone-binding proteins in the genus Choristoneura. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17:553-562.

Willett, C. S., 2000. Do pheromone binding proteins converge in amino acid sequence when pheromones converge? Journal of Molecular Evolution 50:175-183.

Willett, C. S. and R. G. Harrison, 1999. Insights into genome differentiation: Pheromone binding protein variation and population history in the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis). Genetics 153:1743-1751.

Willett, C. S. and R. G. Harrison, 1999. Pheromone binding proteins in the European and Asian corn borers: No protein change associated with pheromone differences. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 29:277-284.

Willett, C. S., M. J. Ford,  and R. G. Harrison, 1997. Inferences about the origin of a field cricket hybrid zone from a mitochondrial DNA phylogeny. Heredity 79:484-494.

Papers submitted or in press:

Willett, C. S. and J. T. Ladner. Fine-scale phylogeography in Tigriopus californicus: the interplay between population structure and selection. Submitted to Evolution.