H-group discussions

Time:    3:30 PM Mondays during spring 2005.  
Place:   Conradi 109
Topics:  I am not posting new topics every week any more.  If you want to be on the email list, please drop me a line, and I will add your name to the list.  

Here are some papers that have been suggested for future dates:

Susan J. Lolle, Jennifer L. Victor, Jessica M. Young & Robert E. Pruitt 2005 Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature 434:505.  Suggested by Kim.

Savarit, et al. 1999. Genetic elimination of known pheromones reveals the fundamental chemical bases of mating and isolation in Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 96, pp. 9015–9020. Suggested by Antonietta.

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Old Discussion papers

This list provides examples of the sorts of papers we have been reading.  I have decided to stop updating this regularly.  

Jan. 10. Phillips, P. C., M. C. Whitlock, and K. Fowler. 2001. Inbreeding changes the shape of the genetic covariance matrix in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 1581137-1145.

Nov. 22. Sgro and Hoffmann 2004.Genetic correlations, tradeoffs and environmental variation. Heredity 93, 241–248

Nov. 15. Begin and Roff, 2004. From micro- to macroevolution through quantitative genetic variation: positive evidence from field crickets.  Evolution 58:2287-2304

Nov. 8:  Chapters from Rendel, J. M. Canalization and Gene Control, 1967. 

Nov. 1: Kirkpatrick M, Hall DW. 2004. Sexual selection and sex linkage EVOLUTION 58: 683-691

Oct 25:  J. M. Rendel; B. L. Sheldon; D. E. Finlay. 1966. Selection for Canalization of the Scute Phenotype. II. Am. Nat. 100:13-31

Oct. 18. Gibson and Dworkin, 2004.  Uncovering cryptic genetic variation. Nature Reviews 5:681. 

Oct. 11.  Reeve and Pfennig, 2003.  Genetic biases for showy males: Are some genetic systems especially conducive to sexual selection? PNAS 100:1089-1094.

Oct. 4. JF de Celis and FJ Diaz-Benjumea 2003. Developmental basis for vein pattern variations in insect wings. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 47 653-663.

Sept. 20: Arhat Abzhanov, Meredith Protas, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant, and Clifford J. Tabin. 2004 Bmp4 and Morphological Variation of Beaks in Darwin's Finches Science 3 September 2004; 305 1462-146.  and Ping Wu, Ting-Xin Jiang, Sanong Suksaweang, Randall Bruce Widelitz, and Cheng-Ming Chuong. 2004. Molecular Shaping of the Beak. Science 3 September 2004; 305 1465-1466

Sept. 13: Palsson, A. and G. Gibson 2004. Association between nucleotide variation in Egfr and wing shape in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 167 1187-1198.

Aug. 30: Denver, D. R., K. Morris, et al. 2004. High mutation rate and predominance of insertions in the Caenorhabditis elegans nuclear genome. Nature 430: 679-682.

June 21: Blows, et al. 2004. Orientation of the fitness surface and the genetic variance-covariance matrix for multiple male sexually selected traits. Am. Nat. 163:329-340. 

May 3:   Shapiro, M. D., M. E. Marks, et al. 2004. Genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacks. Nature 428: 717-723.

April 26. Bolnick 2004.  Can intraspecific competition drive disruptive selection? An experimental test in natural populations of sticklebacks. Evolution: 58:597–607.

April 19. Polak, Starmer, Wolf, 2004. SEXUAL SELECTION FOR SIZE AND SYMMETRY IN A DIVERSIFYING SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTER IN Drosophila bipectinata DUDA (DIPTERA: DROSOPHILIDAE)  Evolution: 58:597–607.

April 12. Hersch and Phillips 2004. Power and potential bias in field studies of natural selection. Evolution 58:479.

April 5 Bjedov, et al. Stress-induced mutagenesis in bacteria. Science 300:1404-1408.

March 29. Hall, Lindholm, & Brooks. 2004. Direct selection on male attractiveness and female preference fails to produce a response. BMC Evolutionary Biology 4:1.

March 22. Kokko, H., R. Brooks, et al. 2002. The sexual selection continuum. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 269: 1331-1340.

March 15. Clark, A. G., S. Glanowski, et al. 2003. Inferring Nonneutral Evolution from Human-Chimp-Mouse Orthologous Gene Trios. Science 302:960-1963. 

March 1. Bolnick and Doebeli. 2003. Sexual dimorphism and adaptive speciation: two sides of the same ecological coin. Evolution 57:2433-2449.

Feb. 23  Ryan and Rand, 2003. Sexual selection in female perceptual space how female tungara frogs perceive and respond to complex variation in acoustic mating signals. Evolution 57(11) 2608-2618.

Feb. 16  Isaac Salazar-Ciudad and Jukka Jernvall, 2004. How different types of pattern formation mechanisms affect the evolution of form and development. EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT 6:6–16.

Feb. 2 Porter and Johnson. 2002. Speciation despite gene flow when developmental pathways evolve. Evolution. 56:2103-2111.

Jan. 26. Greenberg, et al. 2003. Ecological adaptation during incipient speciation revealed by precise gene replacement. Science 302:1754-1757.

Dec.  1 Shaw et al. 2002. A comprehensive model of mutation affecting fitness and inferences for Arabidopsis thaliana.  Evolution 56:453-463.   
Bataillon 2003. Shaking the 'deleterious mutations' dogma? TREE 18:315-317.
Keightley and Lynch 2003. Towards a realistic model of mutations affecting fitness. Evolution 57:683-685.
Shaw et al. 2003. What fraction of mutations reduce fitness? Reply to Keightley and Lynch. Evolution 57: 686-689. 

Nov. 24 Rifkin, et al. 2003. Evolution of gene expression in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. Nature Genetics 33:138-144.

Nov. 10 Messina FJ and Fry JD. 2003. Environment-dependent reversal of a life history trade-off in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. J. of Evolutionary Biology 16501-509.

Nov. 3 Baker and Wilkinson 2001. Phylogenetic analysis of sexual dimorphism and eye-span allometry in stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae). Evolution 55: 1373.

Oct. 27: Zijlstra, Steigenga, Brakefield, and Zwaan. 2003. Simultaneous selection on two fitness-related traits in the butterfly, Bicyclus anynana. Evolution 57 1852-1862.

Oct. 20:  Gompel and Carroll, 2003. Genetic mechanisms and constraints governing the evolution of correlated traits in drosophilid flies. Nature 424:931.
                Sucena, et al. 2003. Regulatory evolution of shavenbaby/ovo underlies multiple cases of morphological parallelism. Nature 424:935
                Richardson and Brakefield, 2003. Hotspots for Evolution. Nature 424:894.