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Revision as of 18:55, 10 April 2009
Spring 2009. EEB 5894- section 001, Instructor Chris Simon, Peoplesoft class number (12379)
Contents
- 1 Meeting time and place
- 2 Schedule for Spring Semester 2009
- 2.1 Monday, March 16th, 2009: Geographic Variants, Incipient Species, Species: Where to Draw the Line?
- 2.2 Tuesday, March 17th, 2009: Hydridization Between Recognized Species Was Well Documented in Darwin's Time
- 2.3 Monday, March 23rd, 2009: Speciation with Gene Flow in Cave Salamanders: Coalescent Models, Adaptive Shifts & Parapatric Speciation
- 2.4 Tuesday, March 24th, 2009: Does Gene Flow Constrain Adaptation or Vice Versa (Ecological Speciation)
- 2.5 Monday, March 30st, 2009: Conclusive Evidence for Sympatric Speciation in Central American Lake Cichlids (or not)?
- 2.6 Tuesday, March 31st, 2009: Mixed Yule Coalescents, Very Low Gene Flow, mtDNA Substructuring & Speciation
- 2.7 Monday, April 6th, 2009: Can reproductive Isolation Evolve on Ecological Time Scales?
- 2.8 Tuesday, April 7th, 2009: How should we classify speciation?
- 2.9 Monday April 13th, 2009: Speciation in the land snail Cerion
- 2.10 Tuesday April 14th, 2009: Hybridization in Cerion
- 2.11 Monday, April 20th, 2009:
- 2.12 Tuesday, April 21st, 2009:
- 2.13 Monday, April 27th, 2009:
- 2.14 Tuesday, April 28th, 2009:
Meeting time and place
We are meeting this semester in the Biopharm 3rd Floor Fishbowl Mondays and Tuesdays 2-3pm.
Please sign up for two dates on the schedule below. A list of topic ideas follows but you can choose anything related to speciation and hybridization.
Subtopic Ideas:
SPECIATION 1) What did Darwin say about speciation and hybridization? (First week) 2) When does a species become a species? How can the earliest stages of speciation be recognized? 3) How much genetic divergence should we expect within species? Are large genetic divergences within species due to polymorphisms/large population sizes, or artifacts, or are they simply due to our failure to recognize cryptic species? 4) Are there "speciation genes"? What are some examples? Are speciation genes restricted to a certain type of mutation or class of genes?
HYBRIDIZATION: It has been estimated that at least 25% of plant species and 10% animal species hybridize* 1) How much gene flow occurs across species boundaries and what are the consequences for species? 2) How can lineage sorting be separated from hybridization as a cause for phylogenetic uncertainty? 3) How important is hybrid speciation in nature 4) Conservation Biology: Should hybrids be shot or poisoned? Or not?
- Mallet, 2005, 2007
Schedule for Spring Semester 2009
Note: the papers linked here require a user name and password to access. If you have forgotten the user name and/or password, contact Chris Simon. If you want to upload a PDF file for an upcoming discussion, use the PDF upload form. Uploading PDFs requires the same user name and password as viewing PDFs.
Monday, March 16th, 2009: Geographic Variants, Incipient Species, Species: Where to Draw the Line?
Discussion leader: Chris Simon
"On the Origin of Species...", Chapter II. Variation Under Nature
The text can be found in searchable form on line at... http://darwin-online.org.uk/ click on the sixth edition of The Origin of Species...
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009: Hydridization Between Recognized Species Was Well Documented in Darwin's Time
Discussion leader: Chris Simon
"On the Origin of Species...", Chapter IX. Hybridism
The text can be found in searchable form on line at... http://darwin-online.org.uk/ click on the sixth edition of The Origin of Species...
Monday, March 23rd, 2009: Speciation with Gene Flow in Cave Salamanders: Coalescent Models, Adaptive Shifts & Parapatric Speciation
Discussion leader: LeRoy Robinson
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009: Does Gene Flow Constrain Adaptation or Vice Versa (Ecological Speciation)
Discussion leader: LeRoy Robinson
Monday, March 30st, 2009: Conclusive Evidence for Sympatric Speciation in Central American Lake Cichlids (or not)?
Discussion leader: Geert Goemans
and the reply ... and as dessert the reply to the reply
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009: Mixed Yule Coalescents, Very Low Gene Flow, mtDNA Substructuring & Speciation
Discussion leader: Chris Owen
Monday, April 6th, 2009: Can reproductive Isolation Evolve on Ecological Time Scales?
Discussion leader: Geert Goemans
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009: How should we classify speciation?
Discussion leader: Chris Owen
Monday April 13th, 2009: Speciation in the land snail Cerion
Discussion leader: Roberta Engel
Topic: This week we'll take a look at speciation and hybridization in the land snail Cerion. Monday's reading will focus on speciation in this system that Mayr and Rosen (1956) noted as having a "crazy quilt" pattern of distribution.
Tuesday April 14th, 2009: Hybridization in Cerion
Discussion leader: Roberta Engel
Topic: Today we will discuss two papers that examine hybridization in Cerion.
1. Fifty years of interspecific hybridization: genetics and morphometrics of a controlled experiment on the land snail Cerion in the Florida Keys
DS Woodruff, SJ Gould
Evolution 41(5), 1987, pp.1022-1045
Monday, April 20th, 2009:
Discussion leader: Beth Wade
Topic: Distinguishing Hybridization from Lineage Sorting
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009:
Discussion leader: Thiago Rangel
Topic: TBA
Monday, April 27th, 2009:
Discussion leader: Beth Wade
Topic: How much gene flow occurs across species boundaries
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009:
Discussion leader: Thiago Rangel
Topic: TBA End of semester