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:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/systematicsseminar/restricted/whitehead%202010%20evolution.pdf}}Whitehead, A. 2010. The evolutionary radiation of diverse osmotolerant physiologies in killifish (''Fundulus'' sp.). Evolution 64(7): 2070-2085. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00957.x doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00957.x].
 
:{{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/systematicsseminar/restricted/whitehead%202010%20evolution.pdf}}Whitehead, A. 2010. The evolutionary radiation of diverse osmotolerant physiologies in killifish (''Fundulus'' sp.). Evolution 64(7): 2070-2085. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00957.x doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00957.x].
 
Note: you will need a user name and password to access the PDF above. These were sent out via the Systematics listserv on Sept. 6, 2011, but feel free to write to [mailto:paul.lewis@uconn.edu Paul Lewis] if you missed it.
 
Note: you will need a user name and password to access the PDF above. These were sent out via the Systematics listserv on Sept. 6, 2011, but feel free to write to [mailto:paul.lewis@uconn.edu Paul Lewis] if you missed it.
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=== Tuesday, September 20, 2011 ===
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Karolina Fučíková will lead a discussion of the following paper:
  
 
== Past Systematics Seminars ==
 
== Past Systematics Seminars ==

Revision as of 17:36, 16 September 2011

This is the home page of the UConn EEB department's Systematics Seminar (EEB 6486). This is a graduate seminar devoted to issues of interest to graduate students and faculty who make up the systematics program at the University of Connecticut.

Click here for information about joining and using the Systematics email list

Meeting time and place

We are meeting this semester in the Bamford Room (TLS 171B) Tuesdays 4-5pm (except Sept. 6, when we will meet in TLS 154; see below)

Schedule for Fall Semester 2011

Several themes were identified for this semester's Systematics Seminar. We will spend 2-3 weeks on each one.

  • Ancestral state reconstruction
  • Use of niche modeling in delimiting species
  • Informativeness of genes
  • Cryptic species

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

We will attend the special seminar by Chris Bird, an EEB BS alum and presently a postdoctoral associate at the University of Hawaii. The talk will be at 4 pm in TLS 154, and is entitled “Sympatric Speciation on the Seashore.”

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Eric Schultz will lead a discussion of the following paper:

Pdficon small.gifWhitehead, A. 2010. The evolutionary radiation of diverse osmotolerant physiologies in killifish (Fundulus sp.). Evolution 64(7): 2070-2085. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.00957.x.

Note: you will need a user name and password to access the PDF above. These were sent out via the Systematics listserv on Sept. 6, 2011, but feel free to write to Paul Lewis if you missed it.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Karolina Fučíková will lead a discussion of the following paper:

Past Systematics Seminars