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Integrative Biology 200B                                                                                                                                                                                                        Spring 2007

"PRINCIPLES OF PHYLOGENETICS: ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION"

Reading List

Jan. 20 - 22: GENERAL PHYLOGENETIC TREE-BUILDING

Jan 25: GENERAL COMPARATIVE METHODS

Feb. 3-5: QUALITATIVE CHARACTER EVOLUTION

2007 Reading assignments

Feb 8 - 15; Feb 27; Mar 1: QUANTITATIVE CHARACTER EVOLUTION

WITHIN A CLADOGRAM

Feb 20: HETEROCHRONY

Feb. 22: MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

March 6: ADAPTATION

March 8: COMPARING SISTER CLADE DIVERSITY

March 13: ADAPTIVE RADIATIONS

March 15: RETICULATION

March 22: SECIES & SPECIATION

April 3: CONSENSUS TECHNIQUES AND TREE CONGRUENCE

April 10 - 12: BIOGEOGRAPHY

April 17: COEVOLUTION

April 19: PHYLOGENETICS IN RELATION TO CONSERVATION

April 24: PALEONTOLOGY AND PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATICS

April 26: EVOLUTIONARY RATES

May 1: MACROEVOLUTION