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Integrative Biology 200B Spring 2007

"PRINCIPLES OF PHYLOGENETICS: ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION"

Most important recommended readings are in bold face; required readings also have two asterisks

Jan 30: GENERAL COMPARATIVE METHODS

(just to get started)

Brooks, D.R., & D. McLennan. 1991. Phylogeny, Ecology, and Behavior. University of Chicago Press.

Burt, A. 1989. Comparative methods using phylogenetically independent contrasts. Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology 6:33-53.

Cheverud, J., and M. Dow. 1985. An autocorrelation analysis of the effect of lineal fission on genetic variation among social groups. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 67:113-121.

Cheverud, J. M., M. M. Dow, and W. Leutenegger. 1985. The quantitative assessment of phylogenetic constraints in comparative analyses: Sexual dimorphism in body weight among primates. Evolution, 39, 1335-1351.

Cliff, A. D., and Ord, J. K. 1973. Spatial Autocorrelation. London: Pion.

Coddington, J. 1988. Cladistic tests of adaptational hypotheses. Cladistics 4:3-22.

de Queiroz, K. 1996. Including the characters of interest during tree reconstruction and the problems of circularity and bias in studies of character evolution. Am. Nat. 148: 700-708.

Felsenstein, J. 1985. Phylogenies and the comparative method. Am. Nat. 125:1-15.

Funk, V.A. and D.R. Brooks. 1990. Phylogenetic systematics as the basis of comparative biology. Smithsonian Institution Press.

Harvey, P.H. and M.D. Pagel. 1991. The comparative method in evolutionary biology. Oxford University Press.

Martins, E. P. 1996. Phylogenies, spatial autoregression, and the comparative method: A computer simulation test. Evolution, v.50, n.5, 1750-1765.

Martins, E. P., and Hansen, T. F. 1997. Phylogenies and the comparative method: A general approach to incorporating phylogenetic information into the analysis of interspecific data. Am. Nat.

Miles, D. B. and A. E. Dunham. 1993. Historical perspectives in ecology and evolutionary biology: the use of phylogenetic comparative analyses. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 24: 587-619.

Sillin-Tullberg, B. 1988. Evolution of gregariousness in aposematic butterfly larvae: a phylogenetic analysis. Evolution 42: 293-305. Sillin-Tullberg, B. 1988. Evolution of gregariousness in aposematic butterfly larvae: a phylogenetic analysis. Evolution 42: 293-305.

Vogl, C., and G. P. Wagner. 1990. Interspecific variability in randomly evolving clades: models for testing hypotheses on the relative evolutionary flexibility of quantitative traits. Sys. Zool. 39:109-123.149:646-667.