This page is intended for the use of students postdocs and faculty involved in the University of Rochester's Fall '07 EEB journal club. The purpose of this journal club is to provide an overview of important topics related to adaptive radiation.
Date
Presenter
Topic
Reading (* =
papers to be read by everyone)
1
9/4
Jaenike
Organizational meeting
2
9/11
Nitin Phadnis
Classic Perspectives
* Simpson, G.
G.1953.The Major Features of Evolution.
Columbia University Press, New York. (Chapter 7)
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Clausen J.,
D.D. Keck, and W.M. Hiesey. 1940. Experimental studies on the nature of
species. I. Effects of varied environments on western North American plants.
Carnegie Institute of Washington publ. no. 520. (excerpt)
Osborn, H.
F.1902.The law of adaptive radiation. Am.
Nat. 36:353-363.
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3
9/18
Rob Laport
Modern Perspective
* Schluter,
D.2000.The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation.
Oxford University Press, New York. (Chapter 2)
Givnish, T.
J.1997.Adaptive radiations and molecular
systematics: issues and approaches. Pp. 1-54 in T. J. Givnish and K. J. Sytsma, eds. Molecular Evolution and
Adaptive Radiation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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Losos, J. B. & D. B. Miles. 2002. Testing the hypothesis that a clade has adaptively radiated: Iguanid lizards as a case study. American Naturalist 160:147-157. |PDF|
4
9/25
David Loehlin
Key Innovation
* Liem, K.
F.1973.Evolutionary strategies and
morphological innovations: Cichlid pharyngeal jaws. Syst. Zool. 22:425-441.
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Hunter, J.
P., and J. Jernvall.1995.The hypocone as a key innovation in
mammalian evolution. PNAS 92:10718-10722.
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Hulsey, C.
D. 2006. Micro- and macroevolutionary decoupling of cichlid jaws: A test of
Liem’s key innovation hypothesis. Evolution 60:2096-2109. |PDF|
Hodges, S. A.
and M. L. Arnold. 1995. Spurring plant diversification: are floral nectar
spurs a key innovation? Proc. Royal Soc. B 262:343-348.
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5
10/2
Shanwu Tang
Ecological Opportunity
* Grant, P.R.
and B.R. Grant. 2002. Adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches. Am. Sci. 90:
130-139.
|PDF| NOTE: This is a big file (~26 MB)
Schluter,
D.2000.The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation.
Oxford University Press, New York. (Chapter 4)
7
10/9
Victoria Cattani
Speciation I: Ecological, Parallel, and Sympatric Speciation
* Rundle, H.
D., L. Nagel, J. W. Boughman, and D. Schluter.2000.Natural
selection and parallel speciation in sympatric sticklebacks. Science
287:306-308.
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Richmond, J.
Q., and T. W. Reeder.2002.Evidence for parallel ecological
speciation in scincid lizards of the Eumeces skiltonianus species group (Squamata : Scincidae). Evolution
56:1498-1513.
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Rundle, H.
D., and P. Nosil.2005.Ecological speciation. Ecology
Letters 8:336-352.
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Schliewen UK, Tautz
D, Paabo S. 1994. Sympatric speciation suggested by monophyly of crater lake
cichlids. Nature 368: 629-632.
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8
10/16
Dan McNabney
Speciation II: Sexual Selection & Sensory Drive
* Maan, M. E.,
K. D. Hofker, J. J. M. van Alphen, and O. Seehausen.2006.Sensory drive in cichlid speciation. American Naturalist
167:947-954.
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Leal, M.,
and L. J. Fleishman.2004.Differences in visual signal design
and detectability between allopatric populations of Anolis lizards. Am. Nat. 163:26-39.
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Seehausen,
O., and D. Schluter.2004.Male-male competition and
nuptial-colour displacement as a diversifying force in Lake Victoria cichlid
fishes. Proceedings B 271:1345-1353.
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Terai, Y. and others. 2006. Divergent selection on opsins drives incipient speciation in Lake Victoria cichlids. PLoS Biology 4:2244-2251. |PDF|
6
10/23
Julienne Ng
Speciation III: Vicariant Speciation
* Glor, R.
E., M. E. Gifford, A. Larson, J. B. Losos, L. R. Schettino, A. R. C. Lara,
and T. R. Jackman.2004.Partial island submergence and
speciation in an adaptive radiation: a multilocus analysis of the Cuban green
anoles. Proceedings B 271:2257-2265
. |PDF|
Rüber, L., E.
Verheyen, C. Sturmbauer, and A. Meyer.1998.Lake level
fluctuations and speciation in rock-dwelling cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika,
East Africa. Pp. 225-240 in P. R.
Grant, ed. Evolution on Islands. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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9
10/30
Daniel Scantlebury
Replicate Radiations and their Implications
* Losos, J.
B., T. R. Jackman, A. Larson, K. de Queiroz, and L. Rodriguez-Schettino.1998.Contingency and determinism in replicated adaptive
radiations of island lizards. Science 279:2115-2118.
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Gillespie,
R.2004.Community assembly through adaptive
radiation in Hawaiian spiders. Science 303:356-359.
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10
11/6
Jing Zhu
The Sequence of Adaptive Radiation
* Schluter, D.,
T. Price, A. O. Mooers, and D. Ludwig.1997.Likelihood of
ancestor states in adaptive radiation. Evolution 51:1699-1711.
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Ackerly DD, Schwilk DW,
Webb CO. 2006. Niche evolution and adaptive radiation: Testing the order of
trait divergence. Ecology 87: S50-S61.
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Streelman, J.
T., and P. D. Danley.2003.The stages of vertebrate evolutionary
radiation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18:126-131.
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Richman, A.
D. and T. Price. 1992. Evolution of ecological differences in the Old World
leaf warblers. Nature 355:817-821.
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11
11/13
Jeremy Herren
Rates of Species Diversification
Hodges, S. A. 1997. Floral nectar spurs and diversification. International J. Plant Sciences 158:S81-88. |PDF|
* Baldwin, B.
G., and M. J. Sanderson.1998.Age and rate of
diversification of the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Compositae). PNAS
95:9402-9406.
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Lovette, I.
J., and E. Bermingham.1999.Explosive
speciation in the New World Dendroica warblers. Proceedings B 266:1629-1636.
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Turner, G.
F.1999.Explosive speciation of African
cichlid fishes. Pp. 113-129 in A. E.
Magurran and R. M. May, eds. The Evolution of Biological Diversity. Oxford
University Press, Oxford.
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Stanley, S. M.
1979. Macroevolution: Pattern and Process. The Johns Hopkins University
Press. (Chapter 5)
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12
11/20
Mahul Chakraborty
Morphological Diversification During Adaptive Radiation
* Harmon, L.
J., J. A. Schulte, A. Larson, and J. B. Losos.2003.Tempo
and mode of evolutionary radiation in iguanian lizards. Science 301:961-964.
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Foote, M. 1993. Discordance and concordance betewen morphological and taxonomic diversity. Paleobiology 19:185-204. |PDF|
Lovette, L. J., E. Bermingham, R. E. Ricklefs. 2002. Clade-specific morphological diversification and adaptive radiation in Hawaiian songbirds. Proc. Royal Soc. B 269:37-42. |PDF|
Burns, K. J., S. J. Hackett, N. K. Klein. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships and morphological diversity in Darwin's finches and their relatives. Evolution 56:1240-1252. |PDF|
13
11/27
Adam Green
Genetics Basis of Adaptive Divergence
* Abzhanov, A.,
W. P. Kuo, C. Hartmann, B. R. Grant, P. R. Grant, and C. J. Tabin.2006.The calmodulin pathway and evolution of elongated beak
morphology in Darwin's finches. Nature 442:563-567.
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Shapiro, M. D.,
M. A. Bell, and D. M. Kingsley.2006.Parallel genetic
origins of pelvic reduction in vertebrates. PNAS 103:13753-13758.
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14
12/4
Rob Unckless
Adaptation Along the Lines of Least Resistance
* Grant, P. R. and B. R. Grant. 1995. Predicting microevolutionary responses to direct selection on heritable variation. Evolution 49:241-251. |PDF|
Lande, R. 1979. Quantitative genetic analysis of multivariate evolution, applied to brain size allometry. 33:402-416. |PDF|
Lande, R. and S. J. Arnold. 1983. The measurement of selection on correlated characters. Evolution. 37:1210-1226. |PDF|
15
12/11
Ray Choudhury
Non-adaptive Radiation
*
Wake, D. B. 2006. Problems with species: patterns and processes of species formation in salamanders. Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden. 93:8-23. |PDF|
Kozak, K. H., D. W. Weisrock, and A. Larson. 2006. Rapid lineage accumulation in a non-adaptive radiation: phylogenetic analysis of diversification rates in eastern North American woodland salamanders (Plethodontidae: Plethodon). Proc. Royal Soc. B 273:539-546. |PDF|