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October 29: Meet in Edmondson 366 @
10:00 AM to discuss direction and focus for journal club for remainder of the
semester.
November 5: Ken Hayes & Brenden
Holland - Two papers for this week. One is an opinion/overview paper on
molecular clocks and the other is an older paper that uses a molecular clock for
a study in Hawaii
Graur, D. & W. Martin. 2004.
Reading the entrails of chickens: molecular timescales of evolution and the
illusion of precision. Trends in Genetics 20(2): 80-86 . (PDF).
Baldwin, B. G. & M. J. Sanderson.
1998. Age and rate of diversification of the Hawaiian silversword
alliance (Compositae). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95:9402-9406. (PDF)
Below is the paper Will brought up at
the Nov. 5 meeting.
Price, J. P. and D. A.
Clague. 2002.
How old is the Hawaiian biota? Geology and phylogeny suggest recent
divergence. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. Ser. B. 269(1508):2429-2435. (PDF)
November 12: Dawn Reding & Brian
Bowen - Switching gears slightly and discussing population and conservation
genetics. This paper has been submitted and Brian suggested that we give
them some feedback. Also, included are some references for
supplemental readings (I will post the PDFs for these as soon as I can get a
hold of them).
Bowen, B. W., A. L. Bass, L.
Soares,
& R. J. Toonen. In Review. Conservation implications of
complex population structure: Lessons from the loggerhead turtle (Caretta
caretta). Conservation Biology. (DOC)
Supplemental References
Fraser, D. J. & L.
Bernatchez.
2001. Adaptive evolutionary conservation: towards a unified concept for
defining conservation units. Molecular Ecology 20:2741-2752. (PDF).
Moritz, C. 1994. Defining 'evolutionary
significant units' for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
9:373-375.
Bowen, B. W. 1998. What is wrong with
ESUs? The gap between evolutionary theory and conservation principles.
Journal of Shellfish Research 17:1355-1358.
November 19: Jaco La Roux - Two papers
this week - one a review of the phenotypic plasticity and its role in evolution
and the other discussing phenotypic plasticity in an introduced African grass in
Hawaii.
Williams, D. G., R. N. Mack, and R. A.
Black. 1995. Ecophysiology of introduced Pennisetum setaceum on
Hawaii: The role of phenotypic plasticity. Ecology 76(5):1569-1580. (PDF)
Price, T. D., A.
Qvarnstrom, and D. E.
Irwin. 2003. The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Lonon, B. 270:1433-1440. (PDF)
November 26: Day after happy kill the Indians
day.
December 3: Anuschka Faucci - Since
Will brought up the Price and Clague paper, Anuschka thought we should all read
and discuss it along with another one looking at speciation in Hawaii.
Price, J. P. and D. A.
Clague. 2002.
How old is the Hawaiian biota? Geology and phylogeny suggest recent
divergence. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. Ser. B. 269(1508):2429-2435. (PDF)
Roderick, G. K. and R. G. Gillespie.
1998. Speciation and phylogeography of Hawaiian terrestrial arthropods.
Molecular Ecology 7:519-531. (PDF)
Dec 10: Marty Meyer - Effective population
sizes, detection of recent bottlenecks and their implications for conservation.
(Also this week we'd like to get people signed up for next semesters papers, at
least the first two weeks)
Miller, C. R. and L. P. Waits. 2003.
The history of effective population size and genetic diversity in the
Yellowstone grizzly (Ursus arctos): Implications for conservation. PNAS.
100(7):4334-4339. (PDF)
Supplemental References - We are not
planning to discuss these unless someone really wants to delve into
them, however, I thought you might like to have them for some background on
the theory underlying this weeks paper.
Cournuet, J-M. and G.
Luikart. 1996.
Description and power analysis of two tests for detecting recent population
bottlenecks from allele frequency data. Genetics. 144:2001-2014 (PDF)
Berthier, P., M. A. Beaumont, J-M.
Cournuet, and G. Luikart. 2002. Likelihood-based estimation of the effective
population size using temporal changes in allele frequencies: A genealogical
approach. Genetics 160:741-751. (PDF)
Beaumont, M. A. 1999. Detecting
population expansion and decline using microsatellites. Genetics
153:2013-2029. (PDF)
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