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BI581: Molecular Ecology - Fall 2004

Schedule and Papers

16 September – genetic basis of adaptive color variation

Nachman MW, Hoekstra HE, D'Agostino SL (2003) The genetic basis of adaptive melanism in pocket mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100:5268-5273.

Hoekstra HE, Drumm KE, Nachman MW (2004) Ecological genetics of adaptive color polymorphism in pocket mice: geographic variation in selected and neutral genes. Evolution 58:1329-1341.

Rosenblum EB, Hoekstra HE, Nachman MW (2004) Adaptive reptile color variation and the evolution of the Mc1r gene. Evolution 58:1794-1808.

Optional

Mundy NI, Badcock NS, Hart T, Scribner K, Janssen K, Nadeau NJ (2004) Conserved genetic basis of a quantitative plumage trait involved in mate choice. Science, 303:1870-1873.

23 September – hox genes and insect morphology

Grenier JK, Carroll SB (2000) Functional evolution of the Ultrabithorax protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97:704-709.

Lee PN, Callaerts P, de Couet HG, Martindale MQ (2003) Cephalopod Hox genes and the origin of morphological novelties. Nature 424:1061-1065.

Mahfooz NS, Li H, Popadic A (2004) Differential expression patterns of the hox gene are associated with differential growth of insect hind legs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101:4877-4882.

Optional Review

Hughes CL, Kaufman TC (2002) Hox genes and the evolution of the arthropod body plan. Evolution and Development 4:459-499.

30 September – molecular clocks

Bromham L (2003) Molecular clocks and explosive radiations. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57:S13-S20.

Douzery EJP, Delsuc F, Stanhope MJ, Huchon D (2003) Local molecular clocks in three nuclear genes: Divergence times for rodents and other mammals and incompatibility among fossil calibrations. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57:S201-S213.

Daniels SR, Mouton PLFN, Du Toit DA (2004) Molecular data suggest that melanistic ectotherms at the south-western tip of Africa are the products of Miocene climatic events: evidence from cordylid lizards. Journal of Zoology 263:373-383.

Optional Background Reading

Fleischer RC , McIntosh CE, Tarr CL (1998) Evolution on a volcanic conveyor belt: using phylogeographic reconstructions and K-Ar-based ages of the Hawaiian Islands to estimate molecular evolutionary rates. Molecular Ecology 7:533-545.

7 October – microsatellites applied to conservation biology

Eggert LS, Mundy NI , Woodruff DS (2004) Population structure of loggerhead shrikes in the California Channel Islands. Molecular Ecology 13: 2121-2133.

Martinez-Cruz B, Godoy JA, Negro JJ (2004) Population genetics after fragmentation: the case of the endangered Spanish imperial eagle (Aquila adalberti). Molecular Ecology 13: 2243-2255.

Hampton JO ,Spencer PBS , Alpers DL, Twigg LE, Woolnough AP, Doust J, Higgs T, Pluske J (2004) Molecular techniques, wildlife management and the importance of genetic population structure and dispersal: a case study with feral pigs. Journal of Applied Ecology 41: 735-743.

Optional Background Reading

Balloux F , Lugon-Moulin N (2002) The estimation of population differentiation with microsatellite markers. Molecular Ecology 11: 155-165.

14 October – population genetics of invasive species

Tsutsui ND, Suarez AV, Holway DA, Case TJ (2000) Reduced genetic variation and the success of an invasive species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97: 5948-5953.

Tsutsui ND, Kauppinen SN, Oyafuso AF, Grosberg RK (2003) The distribution and evolutionary history of Wolbachia infection in native and introduced populations of the invasive argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Molecular Ecology 12: 3057-3068.

Kolbe JJ, Glor RE, Schettino LRG, Lara AC, Larson A, Losos JB (2004) Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizard. Nature 431: 177-181.

21 October – speciaiton in East African cichlids

Salzburger W, Meyer A (2004) The species flocks of East African cichlid fishes: recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and population genetics. Naturwissenschaften 91: 277-290.

Kocher TD (2004) Adaptive evolution and explosive speciation: The cichlid fish model. Nature Reviews Genetics 5: 288-298.

Optional

Salzburger W, Baric S ,Sturmbauer C (2002) Speciation via introgressive hybridization in East African cichlids? Molecular Ecology 11: 619-625.

Smith PF, Konings A , Kornfield I (2003) Hybrid origin of a cichlid population in Lake Malawi: implications for genetic variation and species diversity. Molecular Ecology 12: 2497-2504.

Streelman JT, Gmyrek SL, Kidd MR, Kidd C, Robinson RL, Hert E, Ambali AJ, Kocher TD (2004) Hybridization and contemporary evolution in an introduced cichlid fish from Lake Malawi National Park. Molecular Ecology 13: 2471-2479.

28 October – parentage analyses in eusocial critters

Palmer KA, Oldroyd BP (2003) Evidence for intra-colonial genetic variance in resistance to American foulbrood of honey bees (Apis mellifera): further support for the parasite/pathogen hypothesis for the evolution of polyandry. Naturwissenschaften 90: 265-268.

Burland TM, Bennett NC, Jarvis JUM, Faulkes CG (2004) Colony structure and parentage in wild colonies of co-operatively breeding Damaraland mole-rats suggest incest avoidance alone may not maintain reproductive skew. Molecular Ecology 13: 2371-2379.

Kronauer DJC, Schoning C, Pedersen JS, Boomsma JJ, Gadau J (2004) Extreme queen-mating frequency and colony fission in African army ants. Molecular Ecology 13: 2381-2388

4 November – stickleback functional genomics

Colosimo PF, Peichel CL, Nereng K, Blackman BK, Shapiro MD, Schluter D, Kingsley DM (2004) The genetic architecture of parallel armor plate reduction in threespine sticklebacks. PLoS Biology 2:635-641.

Cresko WA, Amores A, Wilson C, Murphy J, Currey M, Phillips P, Bell MA, Kimmel CB, Postlethwait JH (2004) Parallel genetic basis for repeated evolution of armor loss in Alaskan threespine stickleback populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101:6050-6055.

Foster SA, Baker JA (2004) Evolution in parallel: new insights from a classic system. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:456-459.

Optional

Feder ME, Mitchell-Olds T (2003) Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics. Nature Reviews Genetics 4:651-657.

9 November – historical demography and the coalescent

Luttikhuizen PC, Drent J, Baker AJ (2003) Disjunct distribution of highly diverged mitochondrial lineage clade and population subdivision in a marine bivalve with pelagic larval dispersal. Molecular Ecology 12: 2215-2229.

Flanagan NS, Tobler A, Davison A, Pybus OG, Kapan DD, Planas S, Linares M, Heckel D, McMillan WO (2004) Historical demography of Mullerian mimicry in the neotropical Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101: 9704-9709.

Fraser DJ, Lippe C, Bernatchez L (2004) Consequences of unequal population size, asymmetric gene flow and sex-biased dispersal on population structure in brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis). Molecular Ecology 13: 67-80.

Optional Background Reading

Rosenberg NA, Nordborg M (2002) Genealogical trees, coalescent theory and the analysis of genetic polymorphisms. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 380-390.

9 December – molecular ecology of bats

Kerth G, Safi K, Konig B (2002) Mean colony relatedness is a poor predictor of colony structure and female philopatry in the communally breeding Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 52: 203-210.

Miller-Butterworth CM, Jacobs DS, Harley EH (2003) Strong population substructure is correlated with morphology and ecology in a migratory bat. Nature 424: 187-191.

Veith M, Beer N, Kiefer A, Johannesen J, Seitz A (2004) The role of swarming sites for maintaining gene flow in the brown long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus). Heredity 93: 342-349.