Daven and I are leading a journal club on speciation this semester. Our goal is to introduce core topics through classic papers. This journal club will be a bit more structured than is typical because we are selecting some of our favorite papers a priori, focusing on those that we think will generate lots of discussion. An outline of the topics we intend to cover is below. Each week we will have three or four required readings. Please be sure to get an early jump on these readings so that you come to journal club prepared for discussion. In most cases, we’ll also distribute a set of supplemental or review readings that those of you who are leading the journal club or are particularly unfamiliar with the topic should consider reading. Our topic for next Tuesday will be species concepts and species delimitation, with more details to follow in another post shortly.
Week 1 (Sept. 4th): The reality of species: concepts, definitions, and reality – Glor
Week 2 (Sept. 11th): Geographic speciation and allopatry – Landeen/Glor
Week 3 (Sept. 18th): Speciation with gene flow I: hybrid zones and speciation – Ahmed/Glor
Week 4 (Sept. 25th): Speciation with gene flow II: divergence population genetics – Geneva/Presgraves
Week 5 (Oct. 2nd): Natural and sexual selection I: reinforcement – Johnson/Glor
Week 6 (Oct. 9th): Natural and sexual selection II: sexual selection and speciation – Binshuang/Glor
Week 7 (Oct. 16th): Natural and sexual selection III: divergent natural selection/ecological speciation – Longjun/Glor
Week 8 (Oct. 23rd): Genetics of speciation I: Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities – Brand/Presgraves
Week 9 (Oct. 30th): Genetics of speciation II: Haldane’s rule – Brand/Presgraves
Week 10 (Nov. 6th): Genetics of speciation III: Chromosomal speciation – Longjun/Presgraves
Week 11 (Nov. 13th): Genetics of speciation IV: Genomics of speciation – Binshuang/Glor
Week 12 (Nov. 20th): Genetics of speciation V: Selfish genetic elements and speciation – Chengcheng/Presgraves
Week 13 (Nov. 27th): Speciation and macroevolution – Johnson/Glor
Week 14 (Dec. 4th): The future of speciation research – Chengcheng/Glor/Presgraves