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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 8. COMPARING SISTER CLADES WITHIN A CLADOGRAM

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

Huelsenbeck, J. P. and M. Kirkpatrick. 1996. Do phylogenetic methods produce trees with different shapes? Evol. 50: 1418-1424.

Losos, J. B. and F. R. Adler. 1995. Stumped by trees? A generalized null model for patterns of organismal diversity. Am. Nat. 145: 329-342.

Mooers, A. Ø. 1995. Tree balance and tree completeness. Evol. 49: 379-384.

Slowinski, J.B. and C. Guyer, 1989. Testing the stochasticity of patterns of organismal diversity: an improved null model. Am. Nat. 134:907-921

Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P. and J. L. Gittleman. 2000. Are pinnipeds functionally different from fissiped carnivores? Evolution: 1011-1023.

De Queiroz, A. 1999. Do image-forming eyes promote evolutionary diversification? Evolution 53: 1654-1664.

Dodd, M. E, J. Silvertown, and M. W. Chase. 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of trait evolution and species variation among angiosperm families. Evolution 53: 732-744.

Elbe, G. J. 2000. Contrasting evolutionary flexibility in sister groups: disparity and diversity in Mesozoic atelostomate echinoids. Paleobiology 26: 56-79.

Lemen, C.A. and P.W. Freeman. 1989. Testing macroevolutionary hypotheses with cladistic analysis: evidence against rectangular evolution. Evolution 43:1538-1554.

Pearson, P. N. 1999. Apomorphy distribution is an important aspect of cladogram symmetry. Systematic Biology 48: 399-406.

Roebeck, H. E., C. C. Maley, and M. J. Donoghue. 2000. Taxonomy and temproal diversity patterns. Paleobiology 26: 171-187.

Salisbury, B. A. 1999. Misinformative characters and phylogeny shape. Systematic Biology 48: 153-169.