Piller, K. R. and H. L. Bart Jr. 2009.Incomplete sampling, outgroups, and phylogenetic inaccuracy: A case study of the Greenside Darter complex (Percidae: Etheostoma blennioides).  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53:340-344 (Download pdf ).

Bloom, D. D., K. R. Piller, J. Lyons, N. Mercado-Silva, and M. Medina-Nava. 2009.  Systematics and biogeography of the silverside Tribe Menidiini (Teleostomi: Atherinopsidae) based on the mitochondrial ND2 Gene.  Copeia 2009: 408-417. (Download pdf )

Piller, K. R., H. L Bart, Jr., and D. L. Hurley.  2008.  Phylogeography of the greenside darter complex (Etheostoma blennioides): A wide-ranging polytypic taxon.  Molec. Phylo. Evol. 46: 974-985. (Download pdf ) 
 

Bloom, D. D., K. R. Piller, J. Lyons, and N. Mercado-Silva. 2008. Chirostoma aculeatum: Threatened fishes of the world. Environmental Biology of Fishes 82:221-222.

Piller, K. R., C. C. Wilson, C. E. Lee, and J. Lyons.  2005. Conservation genetics of Upper Mississippi River Basin Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush): Stocked or native ancestry?  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:789-802. (Download pdf ) 

Tipton, J. A., H. L. Bart Jr., and K. R. Piller. 2004. Geomorphic disturbance and its impact on darter distribution (Teleostomi: Percidae) and abundance in the Pearl River drainage, Mississippi, USA. Hydrobiologia 527:49-61.(Download pdf )

Piller, K. R., H. L. Bart Jr., and J. A. Tipton. 2004. Decline of the frecklebelly madtom in the Pearl River based on contemporary and historical surveys. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 133:1004-1033. (Download pdf ) 

Piller, K. R., H. L. Bart, Jr. and J. A. Tipton. 2003. Spawning in the black buffalo Ictiobus niger (Teleostomi: Catostomidae). Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwater. 14:145-150.

Piller, K. R., H. L. Bart Jr., and C. A. Walser. 2001. Morphological variation of the redfin darter, Etheostoma whipplei, with comments on the status of the subspecific populations. Copeia 2001:802-807.(Download pdf )

Piller, K. R. and B. M. Burr. 1999. Reproductive biology and spawning habitat supplementation of the relict darter, Etheostoma chienense, a federally endangered species. Env. Biol. Fishes. 55:145-155.

Piller, K. R. and B. M. Burr. 1998. Distribution and population estimates of the federally endangered relict darter, Etheostoma chienense, Bayou du Chien, Kentucky. J. Ky. Acad. Sci. 59:64-57.

Eisenhour, D. J. and K. R. Piller. 1997. Intergeneric hybrids involving Semotilus atromaculatus and the genus Phoxinus with analysis of additional S. atromaculatus-Phoxinus hybrids. Copeia 1997:204-209.

Burr, B. M., K. M. Cook, D. J. Eisenhour, K. R. Piller, W. J. Poly, R. W. Sauer, C. A. Taylor, E. R. Atwood, and G. L. Seegert. 1996. Selected Illinois fishes in jeopardy: new records and status evaluations. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science. 89:169-186. (Download pdf )