Readings

Reading will be available from either on 2-hour reserve (print media), from the library's e-reserves (pdfs) web site or the library's ejournals collection.

Date Location Reading
Jan 30 ejournals Rieseberg, LH & JH Willis. 2007. Plant speciation. Science 317: 910-914.

Mayr, E. 1992. A local flora and the biological species concept. American Journal of Botany 79: 222-238. [focus on Part B, pp. 231-236]

week 2 lab 2-hour reserve Stace, CA. 1989. Plant taxonomy and biosystematics. Edward Arnold, London.
read Chapter 2, pp. 17-25; 43-52 (read all of pp. 17-52 if you're interested -- don't get bogged down on the names of the people behind the concepts).
Feb 8
ejournals

Kephart, SR, & CB Heiser, Jr. 1980. Reproductive isolation in Asclepias: lock and key hypothesis reconsidered. Evolution 34: 738-746.

Broyles, SB, C Vail, & SL Sherman-Broyles. 1996. Pollination genetics of hybridization in sympatric populations of Asclepias exaltata and A. syriaca (Asclepiadaceae). American Journal of Botany 83: 1580-1584.

week 3 lab
AFS
Funk, V. A. 1995. Cladistic methods, pp. 30-38 in W. L. Wagner and V. A. Funk, [eds.], Hawaiian Biogeography: evolution on a hot spot archipelago. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.
Feb 10
ejournals
McNeilly, T. 1967. Evolution in closely adjacent plant populations. III. Agrostis tenuis on a small copper mine. Heredity 23: 99-108.

Gottlieb, L. D. 1973. Genetic differentiation, sympatric speciation, and the origin of a diploid species of Stephanomeria. American Journal of Botany 60: 545-553.
(also see the description of Stephanomeria malheurensis from the Center for Plant Conservation's web site).

Savolainen, V, M Anstett, C Lexer, I Hutton, JJ Clarkson, MV Norup, MP Powell, D Springate, N Salamin, and WJ Baker. 2006. Sympatric speciation in palms on an oceanic island. Nature 441: 210-213.

Mar 1
ejournals

Rieseberg, LH. 1995. The role of hybridization in evolution: old wine in new skins. American Journal of Botany 82: 944-953.

Mar 4
ejournals
Soltis, PS & DE Soltis. 2000. The role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA 97: 7051-7057.
Mar 13
ejournals

Schemske, DW. and HD Bradshaw, Jr.  1999.  Pollinator preference and the evolution of floral traits in monkeyflowers (Mimulus). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA 96: 11910-11915.

Mar 27
ejournals
Graham, LE. 1985. The origin of the life cycle of land plants. American Scientist 73: 178-186.

Haufler, CH. 2002. Homospory 2002: An odyssey of progress in Pteridophyte genetics and evolutionary biology . BioScience 52: 1081-1093.
Apr 12
Moodle
reserves
Niklas, KJ, BH Tiffney, & AH Knoll. 1985. Patterns in vascular land plant diversification: an analysis at the species level., pp. 97-128, in Valentine, JW [Ed.] Phanerozoic diversity patterns; profiles in macroevolution. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
Apr 15
ejournals
Steeves, TA. 1983. The evolution and biological significance of seeds. Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 3550-3560.
Apr 17
ejournals
Friedman, WE, and SK Floyd. 2001. Perspective: The origin of flowering plants and their reproductive biology - A tale of two phylogenies. Evolution 55: 217-231.
Apr 22
Complete Darwin Online
Darwin, C. R. (1900). The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom (John Murray, London) Chapter I. Introductory Remarks, pp. 1-27
May 3
ejournals
Crepet, WL, and KJ Niklas. 2009. Darwin's second 'abominable mystery': Why are there so many angiosperm species? American Journal of Botany 96: 366-381.
Book cover

Reserve copies of Briggs & Walters (1997) Plant Variaiton and Evolution, 3rd ed.
are on reserve in the Reed College Library