List of works by Doyle McKey

<i>Khaya</i> revisited: Genetic markers and morphological analysis reveal six species in the widespread taxon <i>K. anthotheca</i>

scientific article published in 2022

A Congo Basin ethnographic analogue of pre-Columbian Amazonian raised fields shows the ephemeral legacy of organic matter management

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

A phylogenetic perspective on the association between ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and black yeasts (Ascomycota: Chaetothyriales).

scientific article published in March 2017

A simple enzyme assay for dry matter digestibility and its value in studying food selection by generalist herbivores

scientific article published on 01 May 1981

A simple non-specific chemical signal mediates defence behaviour in a specialised ant-plant mutualism ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2009

A weed-crop complex in sorghum: The dynamics of genetic diversity in a traditional farming system

scientific article

African rainforest vegetation and rumen microbes: Phenolic compounds and nutrients as correlates of digestibility

scientific article

Altitudinal filtering of large-tree species explains above-ground biomass variation in an Atlantic Central African rain forest

scientific article published on 18 January 2017

An Ant-Plant Mutualism and Its Host-Specific Parasite: Activity Rhythms, Young Leaf Patrolling, and Effects on Herbivores of Two Specialist Plant-Ants Inhabiting the Same Myrmecophyte

scientific article published on 02 February 2007

Ancient and recent evolutionary history of the bruchid beetle, Acanthoscelides obtectus Say, a cosmopolitan pest of beans

scientific article published in April 2005

Ancient human agricultural practices can promote activities of contemporary non-human soil ecosystem engineers: A case study in coastal savannas of French Guiana

scientific article published in 2013

Ant nest architecture and seed burial depth: Implications for seed fate and germination success in a myrmecochorous savanna shrub

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

scientific article published in June 2009

Benefits conferred by "timid" ants: active anti-herbivore protection of the rainforest tree Leonardoxa africana by the minute ant Petalomyrmex phylax

scientific article

Cecropia peltata, an Introduced Neotropical Pioneer Tree, is Replacing Musanga cecropioides in Southwestern Cameroon

scientific article published in 1988

Changes in mating system and social structure of the ant Petalomyrmex phylax are associated with range expansion in Cameroon.

scientific article published in March 2007

Chemical ecology in coupled human and natural systems: people, manioc, multitrophic interactions and global change

scientific article published in 2010

Colony structure in a plant-ant: behavioural, chemical and genetic study of polydomy in Cataulacus mckeyi (Myrmicinae).

scientific article published on 9 August 2003

Congeneric mutualist ant symbionts (Tetraponera, Pseudomyrmecinae) differ in level of protection of their myrmecophyte hosts (Barteria, Passifloraceae)

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Correction: Disentangling the Origins of Cultivated Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.).

scientific article published on 15 October 2013

Correction: Range Expansion Drives Dispersal Evolution In An Equatorial Three-Species Symbiosis.

scientific article published on 10 July 2009

Current issues in the evolutionary ecology of ant-plant symbioses

scientific article published on 21 January 2014

Cyanogenic myrmecophytes, redundant defence mechanisms and complementary defence syndromes: revisiting the neotropical ant-acacias.

scientific article published in June 2009

Developmental plasticity and biomechanics of treelets and lianas in Manihot aff. quinquepartita (Euphorbiaceae): a branch-angle climber of French Guiana

scientific article

Disentangling the origins of cultivated sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.).

scientific article

Domestication and Diversity in Manioc (<i>Manihot esculenta</i>Crantz ssp.<i>esculenta</i>, Euphorbiaceae)

scientific article published in 2008

Domestication and defence: Foliar tannins and C/N ratios in cassava and a close wild relative

scientific article published on 27 June 2008

Dynamics of species coexistence: maintenance of a plant-ant competitive metacommunity

scientific article

Ecology of an Improbable Association: The Pseudomyrmecine Plant-ant Tetraponera tessmanni and the Myrmecophytic Liana Vitex thyrsiflora (Lamiaceae) in Cameroon1

article

Ecosystem Engineers in a Self-organized Soil

article

Effects of remnant trees in fallows on diversity and structure of forest regrowth in a slash-and-burn agricultural system in southern Cameroon

scientific article published in 2002

Effects of sublethal attack by a sucking insect, Hyalymenus tarsatus, on Sesbania drummondii seeds: Impact on some seed traits related to fitness

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

Estimating variation in stomatal frequency at intra-individual, intra-site, and inter-taxonomic levels in populations of the Leonardoxa africana (Fabaceae) complex over environmental gradients in Cameroon

article

Evidence confirms an anthropic origin of Amazonian Dark Earths

scientific article published in 2022

Evolution under domestication: contrasting functional morphology of seedlings in domesticated cassava and its closest wild relatives

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Evolutionary biogeography of Manihot (Euphorbiaceae), a rapidly radiating Neotropical genus restricted to dry environments

scholarly article by Anne Duputié et al published 15 February 2011 in Journal of Biogeography

Extraction and quantification of "condensed tannins" as a measure of plant anti-herbivore defence? Revisiting an old problem.

scientific article

Facing herbivory on the climb up: Lost opportunities as the main cost of herbivory in the wild yam Dioscorea praehensilis.

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Farmer seed networks make a limited contribution to agriculture? Four common misconceptions

article published in 2015

Farmers' practices, metapopulation dynamics, and conservation of agricultural biodiversity on-farm: a case study of sorghum among the Duupa in sub-sahelian Cameroon

article

Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas

scientific article published on 9 April 2012

Fungal sex as a private matter: odour signals in a specialized pollination-like insect-fungus mutualism

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Genomic evidence of prevalent hybridization throughout the evolutionary history of the fig-wasp pollination mutualism

scientific article published on 02 February 2021

Geographic differences in patterns of genetic differentiation among bitter and sweet manioc (Manihot esculenta subsp. esculenta; Euphorbiaceae).

scientific article

Gestions locales et dynamiques régionales de la diversité variétale du manioc en Amazonie

scientific article published in 2001

High outcrossing rates in a self‐compatible and highly aggregated host‐generalist mistletoe

scientific article published in 2022

Historical collections reveal patterns of diffusion of sweet potato in Oceania obscured by modern plant movements and recombination

scientific article published on 22 January 2013

Insights into the biogeographical history of the Lower Guinea Forest Domain: evidence for the role of refugia in the intraspecific differentiation of Aucoumea klaineana

scientific article

Integrating phenological, chemical and biotic defences in ant-plant protection mutualisms: a case study of two myrmecophyte lineages

article

Interaction of the Ant-Plant Leonardoxa africana (Caesalpiniaceae) With Its Obligate Inhabitants in a Rainforest in Cameroon

scientific article published in 1984

Late Holocene Neotropical agricultural landscapes: phytolith and stable carbon isotope analysis of raised fields from French Guianan coastal savannahs

article

Leaf volatile compounds and the distribution of ant patrollingin an ant-plant protection mutualism: Preliminary results onLeonardoxa (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae) andPetalomyrmex(Formicidae: Formicinae)

scientific article published on 11 October 2002

Leonardoxa africana (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae): a complex of mostly allopatric subspecies ⬇️

scientific article published in 2000

Local genetic diversity of sorghum in a village in northern Cameroon: structure and dynamics of landraces

scientific article

Maintien du potentiel adaptatif chez les plantes domestiquées à propagation clonale

article

Making the most of grasslands and heathlands

scientific article published in 2021

Manganese distribution in the Mn-hyperaccumulator Grevillea meisneri from New Caledonia

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

Marriage exchanges, seed exchanges, and the dynamics of manioc diversity.

scientific article

Mechanical stimulation of the stigmas triggers switch from female to male phase in the protogynous trap flower of Aristolochia rotunda (Aristolochiaceae)

scientific article published in 2023

Microevolution in agricultural environments: how a traditional Amerindian farming practice favours heterozygosity in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz, Euphorbiaceae)

scientific article published in 2004

Modeling the population dynamics of annual plants with seed bank and density dependent effects

scientific article

Molecular phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic reconsideration of Ceropegia hirsuta (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) reveal a novelty in Thailand, Ceropegia citrina sp. nov., with notes on its pollination ecology

scientific article published in 2021

Multi-locus phylogenies of the genus Barteria (Passifloraceae) portray complex patterns in the evolution of myrmecophytism

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Natural hybridization between a clonally propagated crop, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and a wild relative in French Guiana.

scientific article

New methods for field collection of human skin volatiles and perspectives for their application in the chemical ecology of human-pathogen-vector interactions

scientific article published on 11 April 2013

Origin of mound-field landscapes: a multi-proxy approach combining contemporary vegetation, carbon stable isotopes and phytoliths

scholarly article by Delphine Renard et al published 10 September 2011 in Plant and Soil

Origins of Novel Alkaloid Types: A Mechanism for Rapid Phenotypic Evolution of Plant Secondary Compounds

scientific article published in 1980

Perceptual selection and the unconscious selection of ‘volunteer’ seedlings in clonally propagated crops: an example with African cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) using ethnobotany and population genetics

article

Permanent genetic resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 February 2013-31 March 2013.

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Photosynthesis and Leaf Structure in Domesticated Cassava (Euphorbiaceae) and a Close Wild Relative: Have Leaf Photosynthetic Parameters Evolved Under Domestication?

scientific article published on 27 October 2007

Phylogenetic relationships in the genus Leonardoxa (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) inferred from chloroplast trnL intron and trnL-trnF intergenic spacer sequences

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Phylogeographic support for horizontal gene transfer involving sympatric bruchid species

scientific article (publication date: 27 July 2006)

Phylogeography and the origin of cassava: New insights from the northern rim of the Amazonian basin

scientific article published on 10 May 2009

Plant-ants feed their host plant, but above all a fungal symbiont to recycle nitrogen ⬇️

scientific article published on October 27, 2010

Plant-ants use symbiotic fungi as a food source: new insight into the nutritional ecology of ant-plant interactions.

scientific article published in August 2012

Population genetics of Manihot esculenta ssp. flabellifolia gives insight into past distribution of xeric vegetation in a postulated forest refugium area in northern Amazonia

scientific article published on June 2009

Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia

scientific article (publication date: 27 April 2010)

Pre-Columbian human occupation of Amazonia and its influence on current landscapes and biodiversity ⬇️

journal article from 'Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências' published in 2019

Present-day African analogue of a pre-European Amazonian floodplain fishery shows convergence in cultural niche construction

scientific article

Propagule Quantity and Quality in Traditional Makushi Farming of Cassava (Manihot esculenta): A Case Study for Understanding Domestication and Evolution of Vegetatively Propagated Crops

scientific article published on 02 February 2006

Protection against herbivores of the myrmecophyte Leonardoxa africana (Baill.) Aubrèv. T3 by its principal ant inhabitant Aphomomyrmex afer Emery

scientific article published in 1998

Protective Ant-Plant Interactions as Model Systems in Ecological and Evolutionary Research

scientific article published on 04 December 2003

Range expansion drives dispersal evolution in an equatorial three-species symbiosis

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Range expansion induces variation in a behavioural trait in an ant–plant mutualism

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

Repeated evolution of fungal cultivar specificity in independently evolved ant-plant-fungus symbioses.

scientific article

Seed exchange networks for agrobiodiversity conservation. A review

Seed rain beneath remnant trees in a slash-and-burn agricultural system in southern Cameroon

scientific article published in 2002

Sexual specialization in two tropical dioecious figs

scientific article published on July 1998

Socio-Ecological Approach to a Forest-Swamp-Savannah Mosaic Landscape Using Remote Sensing and Local Knowledge: a Case Study in the Bas-Ogooué Ramsar Site, Gabon

scientific article published in 2023

Soil Animals and Pedogenesis

Specialized pollination by cecidomyiid flies and associated floral traits in <i>Vincetoxicum sangyojarniae</i> (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae)

scientific article published in 2024

Symbiotic mutualism with a community of opportunistic ants: protection, competition, and ant occupancy of the myrmecophyte Barteria nigritana (Passifloraceae)

article

The Amazonian Savannas of French Guiana: Cultural and Social Importance, Biodiversity, and Conservation Challenges

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

The Surales, Self-Organized Earth-Mound Landscapes Made by Earthworms in a Seasonal Tropical Wetland

scientific article

The cost of myrmecophytism: insights from allometry of stem secondary growth.

scientific article published on 7 August 2012

The emergence of cassava as a global crop

The evolutionary ecology of clonally propagated domesticated plants

scientific article published on 25 February 2010

The evolutionary fate of phenotypic plasticity and functional traits under domestication in manioc: changes in stem biomechanics and the appearance of stem brittleness

scientific article

The origin of cultivated mangosteen (<i>Garcinia mangostana</i> L. var. <i>mangostana</i>): Critical assessments and an evolutionary‐ecological perspective

scientific article published in 2023

The symbiosis between Philidris ants and the ant-plant Dischidia major includes fungal and algal associates

scientific article published in 2021

The unappreciated ecology of landrace populations: Conservation consequences of soil seed banks in Cassava

scientific article published in 2007

The unique functioning of a pre-Columbian Amazonian floodplain fishery.

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

The unmanaged reproductive ecology of domesticated plants in traditional agroecosystems: An example involving cassavaand a call for data

scientific article published on 25 July 2002

Tree diversity and conservation value of Ngovayang’s lowland forests, Cameroon

scientific article published in 2011

Variation in the effectiveness of biotic defence: the case of an opportunistic ant-plant protection mutualism

scientific article published on November 2001

Wild yams revisited: Is independence from agriculture possible for rain forest hunter-gatherers?

scholarly article by Serge Bahuchet et al published June 1991 in Human Ecology

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