EvoDevo Journal Club
Meetings: Wednesdays, 11:00-12:00 in Biopharm 3rd floor fishbowl
Contents
Weekly Readings: Spring'10
2/10/10 Kopp 2009. Metamodels and phylogenetic replication: a systematic approach to the evolution of developmental pathways. PDF
2/17/10 Draghi et al. 2010. Mutational robustness can facilitate adaptation. PDF
2/24/10 Harrison et al. 2005. Independent recruitment of a conserved developmental mechanism during leaf evolution. PDF
3/03/10 Tomescue 2009. Megaphylls, microphylls, and the evolution of leaf development. PDF
3/17/03 Campas et al. 2010: Scaling and shear transformations capture beak shape variation in Darwin’s finches. PDF
3/24/10 Venditti and Pagel 2010. Speciation as an active force in promoting genetic evolution. PDF
3/31/10 Di-Poi et al. 2010. Changes in Hox genes' structure and function during the evolution of the squamate body plan. PDF
3/07/10 Isaac Salazar-Ciudad and Jukka Jernvall 2010: A computational model of teeth and the developmental origins of morphological variation. PDF
3/14/10 Liao et al. 2010: Contrasting genetic paths to morphological and physiological evolution. PDF
3/21/10 Werner et al. 2010: Generation of a novel wing color pattern by the Wingless morphogen. PDF
4/28/10 Zhang et al. 2010: Floral symmetry genes and the origin and maintenance of zygomorphy in a plant-pollinator mutualism. PDF
Weekly Readings: Fall'09
09/16/09: Dai et al. 2009. Characterization of microRNAs in cephalochordates reveals a correlation between microRNA repertoire homology and morphological similarity in chordate evolution. PDF
09/23/09: Heimberg et al. 2008. MicroRNAs and the advent of vertebrate morphological complexity. PDF
09/30/09: Bridham et al. 2009. An epistatic ratchet constrains the direction of glucocorticoid receptor evolution. PDF
10/07/09 Heineman et al. 2009. Layers of evolvability in a bacteriophage life history trait. PDF
10/14/09 Khalturin et al. 2009. More than just orphans: are taxonomically-restricted genes important in evolution? PDF
10/21/09 Vargas and Wagner 2009. Frame-shifts in digit identity in bird evolution and Cyclopamine-treated wings. PDF
10/28/09 1.) Organ et al. 2008. Molecular Phylogenetics of Mastodon and Tyrannosaurus Rex. PDF 2.) Shweitzer et al. 2009. Biomolecular characterization and potein sequences of the campanian hadrosaur B. canadensis. PDF
11/04/09 Barrick et al. 2009. Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli. PDF
About the Journal Club:
This informal, interdepartmental discussion group is organized around recent literature and covers a broad range of topics relevant to evolutionary developmental biology.
Evo-devo is a growing and integrative field that draws on many biological disciplines. Student and faculty participants from all fields are welcome! We hope this less formal setting will also draw those curious about the field, as well as help to develop interdisciplinary contacts and ideas.
A few topics we have considered include:
comparative ontogenetics and its relevance to morphological evolution and novelty,
evolvability and evolutionary constraint,
gene regulatory network topology and robustness,
miRNAs and the evolution of complexity,
the evolution of genomic structure,
the prevalence of gene co-option,
questions of genetic and morphological homologies,
the evolutionary significance of developmental and phenotypic plasticity,
genetic assimilation,
the roles that genomic and ontogenetic features may play in speciation,
phylogenetic consideration of ontogenetic characters,
modeling of genetic, developmental, or cellular processes in evolution,
the role of genetic and protein networks in evolution,
as well as methods from allied fields that would fascilitate investigation into any of these topics.
As always we are willing and eager to field suggested readings.
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