Next week we will be reading papers about maternal effect of plasticity. The two papers are listed below:
Galloway, Laura F., and Julie R. Etterson. “Transgenerational plasticity is adaptive in the wild.” Science 318.5853 (2007): 1134-1136.
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Journal Club 9/17
Next week we will be reading three papers about genetic assimilation/accommodation. All are welcome to come.
Baldwin J.M. 1896. A new factor in evolution. Am. Nat. 354: 441-451.
Waddington C.H. 1953. Genetic assimilation of an acquired character. Evolution 7: 118-126.
Suzuki Y. & Nijhout H.F. 2006. Evolution of polyphenism by genetic accommodation. Science 311: 650-652.
Journal Club 11/13: Genetics of Speciation III
Next week, we will continue with the genetics of speciation, focusing on the role of chromosome rearrangements. The three papers we are going to discuss are listed below:
- Baker and Bickham. 1986. Speciation by monobrachial centric fusions. PNAS 83: 8245-8248. [journal link]
- Noor et al. 2001. Chromosomal inversions and the reproductive isolation of species. PNAS 98: 12084-12088. [journal link]
- McGaugh and Noor. 2012. Genomic impact of inversions in parapatric Drosophila species. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 367: 422-429. [doi link]
October 23rd Journal Club: Ecological Speciation
It is our third week of natural and sexual selection. We will focus on ecological speciation this time. The papers we are going to discuss are listed below:
- Mayr, E. 1947. Ecological factors in speciation. Evolution 1: 263-288. [journal link]
- Bush, G. 1969. Sympatric host race formation and speciation in frugivorous flies of the genus Rhagoletis (Diptera, Tephritidae). Evolution 23: 237-251. [journal link]
- Schluter, D. 1996. Ecological speciation in postglacial fishes. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 351: 804-814. [doi link]
- Rundle, HD., P. Nosil. 2005. Ecological speciation. Ecology letters 3: 336-352. [doi link]
Journal Club, 4/24
For this week’s journal club, we will continue our discussion on clade selection. The paper we will be reading is Diversity in Relation to Body Size in Mammals: A Comparative Study.
Journal Club 3/27: The Group Selection Controversy
The cooperative amoeba: Dictyostelium
This week’s topic is the group selection controversy. We are reading Kuzdal-Fick’s 2011 science paper ‘High Relatedness Is Necessary and Sufficient to Maintain Multicellularity.’ Leigh’s paper ‘The group selection controversy’ is for concept and background. See you there!