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Current Problems in Systematics and Evolution |
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Current Problems in Systematics and Evolution |
BIOL 606 provides a forum for graduate students to give a formal lecture on any subject in Systematics & Evolution.
Each 30-minute lecture will be centered on a focal paper from the primary literature and will be followed by a discussion.
Two lectures will be given each session.
All interested persons are welcome to attend the presentations and discussions.
COPIES OF FOCAL PAPERS:
ALL LECTURES WILL BE IN BioSciences G217 (Genetics conference room; except **
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| Jan. 14 | 3 PM | Chelsea Hermus | Does morphological complexity increase over evolutionary time? | McShea, D.W. 1993. Evolutionary change in the morphological complexity of the mammalian vertebral column. Evolution 47:730-740. |
| 4 PM | Jayson Gillespie | Problems arising from long branches in phylogenetic analyses: Attraction and repulsion | Siddall, M.E. and M. F. Whiting. 1999. Long-branch abstractions. Cladistics 15: 924. | |
| Jan. 21 | 3:30 PM | Jeff Greeniaus | Life on Mars? Evidence from the fossil record | Friedmann, E.I., J. Wierzchos, C. Ascaso, and M. Winklhoferi. 2001. Chains of magnetite crystals in the meteorite ALH84001: Evidence of biological origin. PNAS 98:21762181. |
| 4:30 PM | Timon Bullard | Dollo's Law: Is evolution reversible? | Teotonio, H. and M. R. Rose. 2000. Variation in the reversibility of evolution. Nature 408:453-456. | |
| Jan. 28 | 3:30 PM | Tara Macdonald | Broadcasting, brooding and body size: A marine invertebrate life history mystery | Strathmann, R.R., M.F. Strathmann and R.H. Emson. 1984. Does limited brood capacity link adult size, brooding, and simultaneous hermaphroditism? A test with the starfish Asterina phylactica. American Naturalist 123(6): 796-818 |
| 4:30 PM | Lisa Budney | And nothing but the tooth: the origin of vertebrate dentitions | Smith, M.M., Sansom, I.J. and M.P. Smith. 1996. 'Teeth' before armour: The earliest vertebrate mineralized tissues. Modern Geology 20:303-319. | |
| Feb. 4 | 3 PM | Veronique Campbell | The use of SINEs in phylogenetic analysis | Nikaido, M. et al. 2001. Retroposon analysis of major cetacean lineages: The monophyly of toothed whales and the paraphyly of river dolphins. PNAS 98:73847389 |
| 4 PM | Lesley George | Inferring growth rates in dinosaurs and fossil birds | Padian K., A.J. de Ricqles and J.R. Horner. 2001. Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins. Nature. 412:405-8 | |
| Feb. 11 | 3 PM | Stephanie Pierce | Metamorphosis: origins of the insect mid-life crisis | Trueman, J.W. and L.M. Riddiford. 1999. The origins of insect metamorphosis. Nature 401: 447-452 |
| 4 PM | Jeff Saarella | The Evolution of Taxonomy: Phylogenetic Nomenclature in the 21st Century | Cantino, P. D., R. G. Olmstead, and S. J. Wagstaff. 1997. A comparison of phylogenetic nomenclature with the current system: a botanical case study. Syst. Biol. 46: 313-331. | |
| Feb. 25 | 3 PM | Kerry Marchinko | The evolution of sexual dimorphism: sexual vs. natural selection | Szekely, T., Reynolds, J. D., Figuerola, J. 2000. Sexual size dimorphism in shorebirds, gulls, and alcids: The influence of sexual and natural selection. Evolution 54: 1404-1413. |
| 4 PM | Jayson Gillespie | Can Maximum Likelihood be Used to Estimate Phylogenies from Morphological Data? | Lewis, P.O. 2001. A likelihood approach to estimating phylogeny from discrete morphological character data. Systematic Biology 50(6): 913-925 | |
| Mar. 4 | 3 PM | Veronique Campbell | Lineage sorting and coalescence in phylogenetic analysis | Takahashi, K. et al 2001. Phylogenetic relationships and ancient incomplete lineage sorting among cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika as revealed by analysis of the insertion of retroposons Mol. Biol. Evol. 18(11):20572066 |
| 4 PM | Jeff Greeniaus | When Fish Grew Legs: The Origin of Tetrapods | Ahlberg, P.E. & Z. Johanson. 1998. Osteolepiforms and the ancestry of tetrapods. Nature 395: 792-794. | |
| Mar. 11 | 3 PM | Dr. Brian K. Hall (Dalhousie Univ.; guest lecture) |
The relationships between development and evolution
NOTE ROOM CHANGE: BioSciences G116 |
Robert, J.S., B. K. Hall & W. M. Olson. 2001. Bridging the gap between developmental systems theory and evolutionary developmental biology. BioEssays 23:954-962. |
| Mar. 18 | 3 PM | Kerry Marchinko | The evolution of mutualistic symbioses | Ewald, P. W. 1987. Transmission modes and evolution of the parasitism-mutualism continuum. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 503:295-306 |
| 4 PM | Jeff Saarela | Phylogeography and Gene Genealogies: Looking at Genes in Space and Time | Olsen, K. M., & B. A. Schaal. 1999. Evidence on the origin of cassava: Phylogeography of Manihot esculenta. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 5586-5591. | |
| Mar. 25 | 3 PM | Stephanie Pierce | Evolution of endothermy: The hot-blooded truth about the cold-hard facts | Ruben, J., 1995. The evolution of endothermy in mammals and birds: From physiology to fossils. Annual review of physiology. 57: 69-95 |
| 4 PM | Lisa Budney | Is it time to end the oppression of behavioural phylogenies? | Paterson, A.M., G.P. Wallis and R.D. Gray. 1995. Penguins, petrels and parsimony: does cladistic analysis of behavior reflect seabird phylogeny. Evolution 49(5): 974-989. | |
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| Apr. 8 | 3 PM | Tara Macdonald | The Plantae/Fungi/Metazoa trichotomy | Loytynoja, A. and M.C. Milinkovitch. 2001. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial ADP-ATP carriers: The Plantae/Fungi/Metaozoa trichotomy revisited. PNAS 98(18): 10202-10207 |
| 4 PM | Lesley George | The birds and the bees: Pollinator syndromes and the most effective pollinator principle | Mayfield, M.M., N.M. Waser and M.V. Price. 2001. Exploring the 'most effective pollinator principle' with complex flowers: bumblebees and Ipomopsis aggregata. Annals of Botany 88:591-6 | |
| Apr. 15 | 3 PM | Timon Bullard | A history of recapitulation: from Greece to Gould | Lovejoy, N. 2000. Reinterpreting recapitulation: Systematics of needlefishes and their allies (Teleostei: Beloniformes). Evolution 54: 1349-1362 |
| 4 PM | Chelsea Hermus | Divergence dating & biogeography: making the most of the molecular clock | Kumazawa, Y. & M. Nishida. 2000. Molecular Phylogeny of Osteoglossoids: A New Model for Gondwanian Origin and Plate Tectonic Transportation of the Asian Arowana. Mol. Bol. Evol. 17(12):1869-1878 |
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