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.

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.
Date
Location
Reading
Jan 25
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]
Ernst Mayr died Feb 3, 2005 at the age of 100. An obituary appeared in Nature, (17 February 2005, Volume 433, page 700), while this link is to an online Harvard Univ. Gazette article.

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 1
ejournals
Kephart, SR, & CB Heiser, Jr. 1980. Reproductive isolation in Asclepias: lock and key hypothesis reconsidered. Evolution 34: 738-746.

Broyles, SB., C Vail, and S L. 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.

Feb 10
ejournals
The tree-thinking challenge. Science 310: 979-980.

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