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EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY DISCUSSION PAPERS (EVERY FRIDAY) |
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ADAPTATION AND THE ADAPTATIONIST PROGRAM |
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Aug 31 |
Gould, S.J. and R.C. Lewontin. 1979. The spandrels of San
Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist program.
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ROLES OF ADAPTATION, CHANCE AND HISTORY IN EVOLUTION |
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Sept 7 |
Travisano, M., J.A. Mongold, A.F. Bennett and R.E. Lenski. 1995. Experimental tests of the roles of adaptation, chance and history in evolution. Science 267:87-90.[PDF] |
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Losos, J.B., T.R. Jackman, A. Larson, K. de Queiroz, and L. Rodriguz-Schettino. 1998. Contingency and determinism in replicated adaptive radiations of island lizards. Science 279:2115-2118.[PDF] |
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PHYLOGENETIC CONSTRAINT VERSUS ECOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION |
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Sept 14 |
Emlen, D.J. 2000. Integrating development with evolution: a case study with beetle horns. BioScience 50:403-418.[PDF] |
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Emlen, D.J. 2001. Costs and the diversification of exaggerated animal structures. Science 291: 1534-1536.[PDF] |
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UNITS OF SELECTION - SELFISH DNA |
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Sept 21 |
Nur, U., J.H. Werren, D.G. Eickbush, W.D. Burke, and T.H. Eickbush. 1988. A "selfish" B chromosome that enhances its transmission by eliminating the paternal genome. Science 240:512-514.[PDF] |
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Wilkinson, G.S., D.C. Presgraves and L. Crymes. 1998. Male eye span in stalk-eyed flies indicates genetic quality by meiotic drive suppression. Nature 391:276-279.[PDF] |
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Hurst, L.D. and A. Pomiankowski. 1998. The eyes have it. Nature 391:223-224.[PDF] |
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GENETIC BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE |
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Sept 28 |
Lenski, R.E. 1989. Are some mutations directed? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 4:148-150.[PDF] |
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Lolle, S.J., J.L. Victor, J.M. Young and R.E. Pruitt. 2005. Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature 434:505-509.[PDF] |
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Weigel D. and G. Jurgens. 2005. Hotheaded healer. Nature 434:443.[PDF] |
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Pennisi, E. 1998. How the genome readies itself for evolution. Science 281:1131-1134.[PDF] |
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GENETIC BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE – GENOME REDUCTION AND SYMBIOSIS |
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Oct 5 |
Moran, N.A. Microbial minimalism: genome reduction in bacterial pathogens. 2002. Cell 108:583-586.[PDF] |
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Ochman, H. and N.A. Moran. 2001. Genes lost and genes found: evolution of bacterial pathogenesis and symbiosis. Science 292:1096-1098.[PDF] |
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LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION – PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY |
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Oct 12 |
Jaremo, J., J. Tuomi, P. Nilsson, and T. Lennartsson. 1999. Plant adaptations to herbivory: mutualistic versus antagonistic coevolution. Oikos 84:313-320.[PDF] |
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Agrawal, A.A. 2000. Overcompensation of plants in response to herbivory and the by-product benefits of mutualism. Trends in Plant Science 5:309-313.[PDF] |
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LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION - SENESCENCE |
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Oct 19 |
Bell, G. 1984. Evolutionary and nonevolutionary theories of senescence. The American Naturalist 124:600-603.[PDF] |
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Edney, E.B. and R.W. Gill. 1968. Evolution of senescence and specific longevity. Nature 220:281-282.[PDF] |
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Rose, M.R. and B. Charlesworth. 1980. A test of evolutionary theories of senescence. Nature 287:141-142.[PDF] |
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Hughes, K.A, J.A. Alipaz, J.M. Drnevich, and R.M. Reynolds. 2002. A test of evolutionary theories of aging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:14286-14291.[PDF] |
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SEX RATIO VARIATION/SEX CHANGE |
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Oct 26 |
Trivers, R.L and D.E. Willard. 1973. Natural selection of parental ability to vary the sex ratio of offspring. Science 179:90-92.[PDF] |
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Austad, S.N. and M.E. Sunquist. 1986. Sex ratio manipulation in the common opossum. Nature 324:58-60.[PDF] |
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Charnov, E.L. and J.J. Bull. 1977. When is sex environmentally determined? Nature 266:828-830.[PDF] |
COEVOLUTION |
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Nov 2 |
Berenbaum, M.R., A.R. Zangerl. 1998. Chemical phenotype matching between a plant and its insect herbivore. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95:13743-13748.[PDF] |
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Berenbaum, M.R., A.R. Zangerl, and J.K. Nitao. 1986. Constraints on chemical coevolution: wild parsnips and the parsnip webworm. Evolution 40:1215-1228.[PDF] |
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RESOURCE POLYMORPHISMS |
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Nov 9 |
Skulason, S. and T.B. Smith. 1995. Resource polymorphisms in vertebrates. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10:366-370.[PDF] |
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Greene, E. 1989. A diet-induced developmental polymorphism in a caterpillar. Science 243:643-646.[PDF] |
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COMPETITION/CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT |
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Nov 16 |
Schluter, D. 1994. Experimental evidence that competition promotes divergence in adaptive radiation. Science 266:798-801.[PDF] |
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Weiner, J. 1995. Evolution made visible. Science 267:30-33.[PDF] |
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Bernardo, J., W.J. Resetarits Jr., A.E. Dunham. 1995. Criteria for testing character displacement. Science 268:1065-1066.[PDF] |
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Schluter, D. 1995. Reply to Bernardo et al. Science 268:1066-1067. |
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APPLIED EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY: RAPIDITY OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE |
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Nov 30 |
Carroll, S.P. and C. Boyd. 1992. Host radiation in the soapberry bug: natural history with the history. Evolution 46:1052-1069.[PDF] |
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Smith. T.B., L.A. Freed, J.K. Lepson, and J.H. Carothers. 1995. Evolutionary consequences of extinctions in populations of a Hawaiian honeycreeper. Conservation Biology 9:107-113.[PDF] |
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APPLIED EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY |
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Dec 7 |
Balter, M. 2005. Are humans still evolving? Science 309:234-237.[PDF] |
