Schedule of Presentations

February 24 - Group Discussion of :

Losos, J. 1996. Phylogenetic Perspectives on community Ecology. Ecology 77: 1344-1354.

March 2 - Christiana Conser

Phylogeny and Community Ecology

Losos, J. 1990. A Phylogenetic Analysis of Character Displacement in Caribbean Anolis Lizards.  Evolution 44: 558-569.

Bibliography

March 9 - Andy Wilson

Taxon Cycle

Primary Paper: Liebherr, J.K. and A.E. Hajek. 1990. A cladistic test of the taxon cycle and taxon pulse hypotheses. Cladistics 6: 39-59.

Secondary paper: Ricklefs, R.E. and G.W. Cox. 1972. Taxon cycles in the West Indian avifauna. American Naturalist 106: 195-218.

Bibliography

March 16 - Ben Wang

Behavior and Phylogeny

Bibliography

March 23 - Chester Hartsough

Key Innovation, Key Adaptation: Testing an Hypothesis of Adaptive Radiation

Mitter, C., B. Farrell, and B. Wiegmann. 1988. The phlogenetic study of adaptive zones: has phytophagy promoted insect diversification? American Naturalist 132: 107-128.

Bibliography

March 30 - Melissa Hardy

Vicariance Biogeography

Primary Paper: Voelker, G. 1999. Dispersal, vicariance, and clocks: Historical biopgeography and speciation in a cosmopolitan passerine genus (Anthus: Motacilladae). Evolution 53: 1536-1552.

Seconday Papers: Ronquist, F. 1997. Dispersal-vicariance analysis: A new approach to the quantification of historical biogeography. Systematic Biology: 46-195-203.

Bremer, K. 1992. Ancestral areas: A cladistic reinterpretation of the center-of-origin concept. Systematic Biology 41: 436-445.

Bibliography

April 6 - Tiffany Bean

Vicariance and Dispersal

Primary paper: Hedges, S.B. C.A. Hass, and L.R. Maxson. 1992. Caribbean biogepgraphy: Molecular evidence for dispersal in West Indian terrestrial vertebrates. PNAS 89: 1909-1913.

Secondary Paper: Page, R.D.M. and C. Lydeard. 1994. Towards a cladistic biogeography of the caribbean. Cladistics 10: 21-41.

Tertiary Paper: Hedges, S.B., C.A. Hass, and L.R. Maxson. 1994. Reply: Towards a biogeography of the caribbean. Cladistsics 10: 43-55.

Bibliography

April 13 - Melanie Paquin

Primary Paper: Lande, R. 1988. Genetics and demography in biological conservation. Science 241: 1455-1460.

Primary Paper: Frankham, R. 1995. Inbreeding and extinction: A threshold effect. Conservation Biology 9: 792-799.

Bibliography

Co-Speciation I

April 27 - John Poulsen

Primary Paper: Futuyma, D. J., M.C. Krese, and D.J. Funk. 1995. Genetic constraints on macroevolution: The evolution of host affiliation in the leaf beetle genus Ophraella. Evolution 49: 797-809.

Primary Paper: Funk, D., D.Futuyma, G. Orti, and A. Meyer. 1995. A history of host associations and evolutionary diversification for Ophraella (coleoptera: Chrysomelidae): New evidence from mitochonrdial DNA. Evolution 49: 1008-1017.

Bibliography

Co-Speciation II

May 4 - Melissa Andres

Primary Paper: Pellmyr, O.  and J. Leebens-Mack. 1999. Forty million years of mutulaism: Evidence for Eocene origin of yucca-yucca moth association. PNAS 96: 9178-9183.

Primary Paper: Herre, E.A., C.A. Machado, E. Bermingham, J.D. Nason, D.M. Windsor, S.S. McCafferty, W. Van Houten, and K. Bachman. 1996. Molecular phylogenies of figs and their pollinator wasps. Journal of Biogeography 23: 521-530.

Primary Paper: Anstett, M.C. M. Hossaert-McKey, and F. Kjellberg. 1997. Figs and fig pollinators: evolutionary conflicts in a coevolved mutualism. TREE 12: 94-99.

Bibliography

Co-Speciation III

May 11 - Connie Clark

Bibliography

Co-Speciation IV

Candace Low -  May 18 (12:30- 2:30 pm)

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