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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

 

 

March 6: ADAPTATION

 

Armbruster, W. S. (1994). “Early evolution of Dalechampia (Euphorbiaceae): Insights from phylogeny, biogeography, and comparative ecology.” Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 81(2), 302-316.

 

Armbruster, W. S. (1997). “Exaptations link evolution of plant-herbivore and plant-pollinator interactions: A phylogenetic inquiry.” Ecology (Washington D C), 78(6), 1661-1672.

 

Brandon, R. N. 1990. Adaptation and Environment. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

 

Culver, D. C., T. C. Kane, D. W. Fong.  1995.  Adaptation and Natural Selection in Caves: The evolution of Gammarus minor.  Cambridge, MA, Harvard Unversity Press.

 

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

 

Coddington, J. 1994. The roles of homology and convergence in studies of adaptation. Pages 53-78 in P. Eggleton and R. Vane-Wright, editors. Phylogenetics and ecology. Academic Press, London.

 

Craddock, E. M., and Kambysellis, M. P. (1997). “Adaptive radiation in the Hawaiian Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae): Ecological and reproductive character analyses.” Pacific Science, 51(4), 475-489.

 

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.

 

Frumhoff, P. C. and H. K. Reeve. 1994. Using phylogenies to test hypotheses of adaptation: a critique of some current approaches. Evol. 48: 172-180.

 

Galis, F.  2000.  Key innovations and radiations.  Pp 581-605 in G. P. Wagner (ed), The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology.  Sandiego, Academic Press.

 

Givnish, T. J., T. M. Evans, M. L. Zjhra, T. B. Patterson, P. E. Berry, K. J. Sytsma.  2000.  Molecular evolution, adaptive radiation, and geographic diversification in the amphiatlantic family Rapateaceae: evidence from ndhF sequences and morphology.  Evolution 54: 1915-1937.

 

Gould, S.J. and E.S. Vrba 1982.  Exaptation--a missing term in the science of form.  Paleobiology 8:4-15.

 

** Gould, S.J. and R. Lewontin 1979.  The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme.  Pp. 147-164 in: The evolution of adaptation by natural selection (J. Maynard Smith & R. Holliday, eds.).  Roy. Soc. London.

 

Guyer, C. and J.B. Slowinski.  1991.  Comparisons of observed phylogenetic topologies with null expectations among three monophyletic lineages.  Evolution 45:340-50.

 

Harvey, P., and A. Purvis. 1991. Comparative methods for explaining adaptations. Nature 351:619-624.

 

Houle, A. (1997). “The role of phylogeny and behavioral competition in the evolution of coexistence among primates.” Canadian Journal of Zoology, 75(6), 827-846.

 

Huey, R.B. and A.F. Bennett. 1987. Phylogenetic studies of co-adaptation: preferred temperature versus optimal performance temperatures of lizards. Evolution 41: 1098-115.

 

Huey, R.B. 1987. Phylogeny, history, and the comparative method. Pp. 76-101 in Feder, M.E., A.F. Bennett, W.W. Burggren, R.B. Huey (eds). New Directions in Ecological Physiology. Cambridge University Press, New York.

 

Kappeler, P. M., and Heymann, E. W. (1996). Nonconvergence in the evolution of primate life history and socio-ecology.” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 59(3), 297-326.

 

Kiltie, R.A. 1985.  Evolution and function of horns and hornlike organs in female ungulates.  Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 24:299-320.

 

Larson, A., and J. B. Losos. 1996. Phylogenetic systematics of adaptation. Pages 187-220 in M. R. Rose and G. V. Lauder, editors. Adaptation. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

 

Lauder, G.V. 1981.  Form and function: structural analysis in evolutionary morphology.  Paleobiology 7:430-442.

 

**Lauder, G. V., A. M. Leroi, and M. R. Rose. 1993. Adaptations and History. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 8:294-297.

 

Leroi, A. M., M. R. Rose, and G. V. Lauder. 1994. What does the comparative method reveal about adaptation? Amer. Nat. 143:381-402.

 

Losos, J. B. 1996. Phylogenies and comparative biology, Stage II: Testing causal hypotheses derived from phylogenies with data from extant taxa. Syst. Biol. 45: 259-260.

 

Martins, E. P. (1996). “Phylogenies and the comparative method in animal behavior.” Phylogenies and the comparative method in animal behavior, E. P. Martins, ed., Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, New York, USA; Oxford, England, UK.

 

MacFadden, B. J.  2000.  CENOZOIC MAMMALIAN HERBIVORES FROM THE AMERICAS: Reconstructing Ancient Diets and Terrestrial Communities.  Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. Vol. 31: 33-59.

 

McPeek, M. A.  2000.  Predisposed to adapt? Clade-level differences in characters affecting swimming performance in damselflies.  Evolution 54: 2072-2080.

 

Mishler, B.D. 1988. Reproductive ecology of bryophytes. Pp. 285-306 in J. Lovett Doust and L. Lovett Doust (eds.), Plant Reproductive Ecology. Oxford University Press.

 

Mitter, C., B. Farrell, and B. Wiegmann. 1988. The phylogenetic study of adaptive zones: Has phytophagy promoted insect diversification? Amer. Nat. 132:107-128.

 

Motychak, J. E., E. D. Brodie, and E. D. Brodie.  1999.  Evolutionary response of predators to dangerous prey: preadaptation and the evolution of tetrodotoxin resistance in garter snakes.  Evolution 53: 1528-1535.

 

Orzack, S., and E. Sober. 1994. Optimality models and the test of adaptationism. AmerNat. 143:361-380.

 

Padian, K.  1986.  A comparative phylogenetic and functional approach to the origin of vertebrate flight.  Pp. 3-22 in M. B. Fenton, P. Racey, and J. M. V. Rayner (eds.), Recent Advances in the Study of Bats.  Cambridge University Press, New York.

 

Pagel, M. 1994. The adaptationist wager. Pages 29-51 in P. Eggleton and R. Vane-Wright, editors. Phylogenetics and ecology. Academic Press, London.

 

Plotnick, R. E. and T. K. Baumiller.  2000.  Invention by evolution: functional analysis in paleobiology.  Paleobiology 26 (supplment to 4): 305-323.

 

Price, P. W. (1994). “Phylogenetic constraints, adaptive syndromes, and emergent properties: From individuals to population dynamics.” Researches on Population Ecology (Kyoto), 36(1), 3-14.

 

Reeve, H. K., and P. W. Sherman. 1993. Adaptation and the goals of evolutionary research. Q. Rev. Biol. 68:1-32.

 

Ridley, M. 1983. The explanation of organic diversity: the comparative method and adaptations for mating. Oxford University Press.

 

Rose, M. R. and G. V. Lauder (eds.)  1996.  Adaptation.  San Diego, Academic Press.

 

Siddall, M. E. 1996. Phylogenetic covariance probability: confidence and historical associations. Syst. Biol. 45: 48-66.

 

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

 

Wagner, W L. Hawaiian biogeography: Evolution on a hot spot archipelago. Wagner, W. L. and V. A. Funk (Ed.). Hawaiian biogeography: Evolution on a hot spot archipelago. xvii+467p. Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington, DC, USA; London, England, UK. 1995.

 

Wanntorp, H. 1983. Historical constraints in adaptation theory: traits and non-traits. Oikos 41:157-159.

 

Wanntorp, H. et al. 1990. Phylogenetic approaches in ecology. Oikos 57: 119-132.

 

West-Eberhard, M. 1992. Adaptation: Current usages. Pages 13-18 in E. Keller and E. Lloyd, editors. Keywords in evolutionary biology. Harvard UnivPress, Cambridge, MA.

 

Westneat, M. W. (1995). “Feeding, function, and phylogeny: Analysis of historical biomechanics in labrid fishes using comparative methods.” Systematic Biology, 44(3), 361-383.

 

Westneat, M. W. (1995). “Phylogenetic systematics and biomechanics in ecomorphology.” Environmental Biology of Fishes, 44(1-3), 263-283.