Readings.
Assignment 9.
Earth's Oxygen History
Huey, R. and P. Ward. 2005. Hypoxia, Global Warming, and Terrestrial Late Permian Extinctions. Science 308: 398.
Of related interest (used in lecture) :
Lane, N. 2007. Reading the book of death. Nature 448: 122-125. This short perspectives piece puts the Huey and Ward paper into context of other research on end Permian extinction.
Falkowski et al. 2005. The Rise of Oxygen over the Past 205 Million Years and the Evolution of Large Placental Mammals. Science 309: 2202.
Berner, VandenBrooks and Ward. 2007. Oxygen and Evolution. Science 318 (quick 2 page review)
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If you're interested: Is Mate Choice in Humans MHC-Dependent? Sept. 2008
Assignment 8 Speciation studies in sticklebacks Due April 17 by 5pm (note this is a change from april 16).
For Thursday read one of these two articles - your choice! And answer the questions.
Rundle, H.D., L. Nagel, J. W. Boughman, D. Schluter. 2000. Natural selection and parallel speciation in sympatric sticklebacks. Science 287: 306-308.
McKinnon, J.S. 2004. Evidence for ecology's role in speciation. Nature 429:924.
Speciation paper questions ANSWERS
Optional: If you find this topic interesting, you might want to read this summary of speciation work in Sticklebacks. I use quite a bit of info from it in my lecture too.
McKinnon, J.S. and H.D. Rundle. 2002. Speciation in nature: The threespine stickleback model systems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 480-488.
Vines and Schluter.2006. Strong assortative mating between allopatric sticklebacks as a by-product of adaptation to different environments. Proc. R. Soc. B (2006) 273, 911–916
Colosimo et al. 2005. Widespread Parallel Evolution in Sticklebacks by Repeated Fixation of Ectodysplasin Alleles. Science 307:1928.
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Reusch et al. 2001. Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC polymorphism
Assignment 7 questions to answer. Due April 7.
Optional Supplement reading: Milinski et al. 2005. Mate choice decisions of stickleback females predictably modified by MHC peptide ligands. PNAS 4414
ASSIGNMENT 6. The relatedness of human populations.
Li et al. 2008. Worldwide human relationships inferred from genome-wide patterns of variation. Science 319: 1100. Supplementary Material Map of population locations
[PRINTING NOTE: It is important to look at the color version of the figures in this paper]
Assignment 6 Questions to Answer for Li et al. Due Tuesday Mar. 24 at beginning of class.
ANSWERS
Extra Credit 3 Reading (Alternative to writing a report on Ruth Mace's lecture).
Selection for lactase persistance in humans.
Due Thurs March 26 in class.
Tishkoff et al. 2007. Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence
in Africa and Europe. Nature Genetics 39: 31-40.
[PRINTING NOTE: It is important to look at the color version of the figures in this paper]
FOR ASSIGNMENT 3
Squirrels (1/29/08)
Mercer and Roth 2003
Commentary by Pennisi
OPTIONAL READINGS
1. On the evolution of new genes
Review by Long et al.
Hahn et al: Analysis of gene gain and loss rates in drosophila
2. Cool phylogeny applications:
Evolutionary radiation of Felids - like the squirrel paper, but about cats (and with better data).
Johnson et al. The Late Miocene radiatoin of Modern Felidae: A Genetic Assessment. 2006