Category Archives: Reading Groups

Speciation Reading Group Continues

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Having completed Coyne and Orr last week, the speciation reading group will continue this week with some recent literature on speciation.  On Monday at 2PM in the graduate student lounge we’ll discuss two papers from the American Society of Naturalist’s recent symposium on Darwinian Thinking: 150 Years After the Origin.

Schemske, D. W. (2010) Adaptation and The Origin of Species. American Naturalist 176:S4-S25. [doi link]

Presgraves, D. C. (2010) Darwin and the origin of interspecific genetic incompatabilities. American Naturalist 176:S26-S44. [doi link]

EEB Readings, Nov. 22-26

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Hemidactylus fasciatus, the gecko investigated in Leaché and Fujita's paper on species delimitation and description that will be the focus of this week's Glor Lab meeting. (Image from http://www.rehberim.net/forum/resimler-ve-duvar-kagitlari-383/156017-yasadisi-avcilik-afrika-adasini-vuruyor.html)

UPDATE: Speciation reading group has shifted from Monday to Tuesday.  Also, there will be no journal club this week due to the holiday week.

Tuesday: Speciation reading group. 2PM in Hutch 341. Ch. 12 on Macroevolution from Coyne and Orr.

Wednesday: Glor Lab Meeting. Noon in Hutch 341. We’re reading a recent exchange on species delimitation and description that pits a recent Bayesian method against classic taxonomic practice.  Contact the Glor lab if you want in on lunch.

Leaché and Fujita, 2010: [doi link]
Bauer et al., 2010 response: [doi link]
Fujita and Leaché, 2010 reply: [doi link]

EEB Readings, Nov. 15-19

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Image of Anopheles albimanus from wiki commons .

Monday: Speciation reading group. 2PM in Hutch 341. Ch. 11 on Selection v. Drift from Coyne and Orr.

Tuesday: EEB Journal Club. 12:30 in the Bryant Room. Two recent papers on the genome of Anopheles [1 & 2]

Wednesday: Island biogeography discussion group. Noon in Hutch 341. Losos and Parents chapter on the species-area relationship from The Theory of Island Biogeographic Revisited. Contact the Glor Lab if you want to get in on lunch.

Wednesday: Pfeil E.K., Casacchia N., Kerns G.J., and Diggins T.P. 2007. Distribution, composition, and orientation of down deadwood in riparian old-growth woodlands of Zoar Valley Canyon, western New York State, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 239:159-168. [[doi link]]

Friday: Elements of Evolutionary Genetics reading group. 10AM in the graduate student lounge. Second half of chapter 3 from Charlesworth & Charlesworth.

Reinforcement Discussion Today at 2PM

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Gastrophryne olivacea (image from http://wildsnap.com) and G. carolinensis (image from http://www.chriskaylerphotography.com/) were the subjects of Blair’s classic work on reinforcement in frog mating calls.

Just a reminder that the speciation reading group will be meeting today to discuss Ch. 10 from Coyne and Orr on Reinforcement.

EEB Readings, Nov. 8-12

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Lesser Antillean bullfinch. Image from http://www.birdinginstlucia.org/birdfieldguide/photos.htm

Monday: Speciation reading group. 2PM in Hutch 341. Ch. 10 on Reinforcement from Coyne and Orr.

Tuesday: EEB Journal Club. 12:30 in the Bryant Room. The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium (2010) A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing. Nature. [doi link]

Wednesday: Island biogeography discussion group. Noon in Hutch 341. Ricklefs’s chapter in The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited. Contact the Glor Lab if you want to get in on lunch.

Wednesday: Bartuszevige A.M., Gorchov D.L. and Raab L. 2006. The relative importance of landscape and community features in the invasion of an exotic shrub in a fragmented landscape. Ecography 29:213-222. [[doi link]]

Friday: Elements of Evolutionary Genetics reading group. 10AM in the graduate student lounge. First half of chapter 3 from Charlesworth & Charlesworth.

EEB Readings, Nov. 1-5

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Monday: Speciation reading group. 2PM in Hutch 341. Polyploidy and Hybrid Speciation from Coyne and Orr.

Tuesday: EEB Journal Club. 12:30 in the Bryant Room. Xia et al. (2009) Complete resequencing of 40 genomes reveals domestication events and genes in silkworm (Bombyx). Science 326:433-436. [doi link]

Wednesday: Island biogeography discussion group. Noon in Hutch 341. Gillespie & Baldwin’s chapter in The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited. Contact the Glor Lab if you want to get in on lunch.

Wednesday: Martin P.H. and Marks P.L. 2006. Intact forests provide only weak resistance to a shade-tolerant invasive Norway maple (Acer platanoides L.). Journal of Ecology 94:1070-1079. [[doi link]]

Friday: Elements of Evolutionary Genetics reading group. 10AM in the graduate student lounge. First half of chapter 3 from Charlesworth & Charlesworth.

EEB Readings, Oct. 25-29

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Monday: Speciation reading group. 2PM in Hutch 341. Chapter 8 of Coyne and Orr.

Wednesday: Island biogeography discussion group. Noon in Hutch 341. Grant & Grant’s chapter in The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited. Contact the Glor Lab if you want to get in on lunch.

Wednesday: Plant ecology and evolution journal club. 2PM in Hutch 316.  Goodell L. and Faber-Langendoen D. 2007. Development of stand structural stage indices to characterize forest condition in Upstate New York. Forest Ecology and Management 249:158-170. [[doi link]]

Friday: Elements of Evolutionary Genetics reading group. 10AM in Hutch 313. Chapter 2 of Charlesworth & Charlesworth.

Elements of Evolutionary Genetics to be Subject of New Reading Group

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A new reading group has formed to read Charlesworth and Charlesworth’s new book Elements of Evolutionary Genetics starting with Chapter 1 this week. We will be reading each chapter and going over the problem sets found at the end. Later chapters are longer and we may space those out of multiple meetings. Meeting time is 10am on Fridays in the Garrigan Lab (room 313). Also, for those of you who don’t already have the book, Amazon.com offers free memberships to Amazon Prime (read free 2-day shipping) to anyone with a .edu email address. – Anthony Geneva

EEB Readings, Oct. 18-22

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Monday: Speciation reading group. 2PM in Hutch 341. Chapter 7 of Coyne and Orr.

Wednesday: Island biogeography discussion group. Noon in Hutch 341. Clegg’s chapter on evolutionary changes following island colonization in The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited. Contact the Glor Lab if you want to get in on lunch.

Wednesday: Plant ecology and evolution journal club. 2PM in Hutch 316.  Hale C.M., Frelich L.E., and Reich P.B. 2006. Changes in hardwood forest understory plant communities in response to European earthworm invasions. Ecology 87:1637-1649. [[doi link]]

UPDATE:
Friday: Elements of Evolutionary Genetics reading group. 10AM in Hutch 313. Chapter 1 of Charlesworth & Charlesworth.