Zeng, Z-B., Liu, J., Stam, LF., Kao, C-H., Mercer, JM., and Laurie, CC. (2000). Genetic architecture of a morphological shape difference between two Drosophila species. Genetics 154, 299-310.

Mezey, JG., Houle, D., and Nuzhdin, SV. (2005). Naturally segregating quantitative trait loci affecting wing shape of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 169, 2101-2113.

This week we will be reading two papers:
Devlin, B., M. Daniels, and K. Roeder. 1997. The heritability of IQ. Nature 388:468-471.
Visscher, PM. et al. 2006. Assumption-free estimation of heritability from genome-wide identity-by-descent sharing between full siblings. PLoS Genetics 2:316-325.

Due to the snow last week, journal club was canceled and the papers were pushed to this week!
Clayton, G. and A. Robertson. 1955. Mutation and quantitative variation. American Naturalist 89:151-158.
Houle, D., B. Morikawa, and M. Lynch. 1996. Comparing mutational variabilities. Genetics 143:1467-1483.

Come join us for journal club next Tuesday at 12:30pm in HH316. We will discuss the following papers on neural evolution:

Somel et al., 2013 Human brain evolution: transcripts, metabolites and their regulators. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14, 112-127.
Moroz et al., 2014 The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems. Nature 510, 109–114.

Next week at journal club we will be discussing these two papers on evolvability.

Graves CJ, Ros VID, Stevenson B, Sniegowski PD, Brisson D (2013) Natural Selection Promotes Antigenic Evolvability. PLoS Pathog 9(11): e1003766

Pigliucci, M (2008) Is evolvability evolvable? Nature Reviews Genetics 9, 75-82

Next week, with the help of Dr. Ghaemmaghami, we will be discussing prion evolution

Tyedmers, Jens, Maria Lucia Madariaga, and Susan Lindquist. “Prion switching in response to environmental stress.” PLoS biology 6.11 (2008): e294.
Halfmann, Randal, et al. “Prions are a common mechanism for phenotypic inheritance in wild yeasts.” Nature 482.7385 (2012): 363-368.

Next week we’ll be reading the following papers about phenotypic plasticity and ecological interactions:

Fordyce JA (2006) The evolutionary consequences of ecological interactions mediated through phenotypic plasticity. J Exp Biol 209:2377–2383 

P.G. Kraft, C.E. Franklin, M.W. Blows(2006) Predator induced phenotypic plasticity in tadpoles: extension or innovation? J Exp Biol 19:450–458

Next week will be reading the following papers for Journal Club

The loci of evolution: how predictatble is genetic evolution
Population genetics, pleiotropy, and the preferential fixation of mutations during adaptive evolution

Next week we will be discussing epigenetics and phenotypic plasticity.
See you then!

Kucharski R., Maleszka J., Foret S. & Maleszka R. 2008. Nutritional control of reproductive status in honeybees via DNA methylation. Science 319: 1827-1830.
Richards C.L., Bossdorf O. & Pigliucci M. 2010. What Role Does Heritable Epigenetic Variation Play in Phenotypic Evolution? BioScience 60: 232-237.

Next week in Journal Club we will discuss molecular mechanisms underlying plasticity. See everyone there!

Anstey M.L., Rogers S.M., Ott S.R., Burrows M. & Simpson S.J. 2009. Serotonin mediates
behavioral gregarization underlying swarm formation in desert locusts. Science 323:
627-630.

Kijimoto T., Moczek A.P. & Andrews J. 2012. Diversification of doublesex function underlies
morph-, sex-, and species-specific development of beetle horns. PNAS. 109: 20526-
20531.