Readings

reading will be available from either on 2-hour reserve, from the library's e-reserves web site or the library's ejournals collection.

Date
Location
Reading
Jan 28
ejournals
Rieseberg, L. H. & J. H. 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
library reserve
Stace, C. A. 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 4
ejournals
Kephart, S. R., and C. B. Heiser, Jr. 1980. Reproductive isolation in Asclepias: lock and key hypothesis reconsidered. Evolution 34: 738-746.

Broyles, S. B., 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.

Feb 13
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.

week 4 lab
library reserve
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 23
ejournals
Ellstrand, NC, R Whitkus, & LH Rieseberg. 1996. Distribution of spontaneous plant hybrids. Proc. Nat. Acad. Scii., USA 93: 5090-5093.
Mar 4
ejournals
Soltis, PS & DE Soltis. 2000. The role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids. Proc. Nat. Acad. Scii., USA 97: 7051-7057.
Mar 9
ejournals

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

Mar 13
JSTOR
McDade, L. A. 1992. Pollinator relationships, biogeography, and phylogenetics. BioScience 42: 21-26.
Mar 23
e-reserves
Graham, L. E. 1985. The origin of the life cycle of land plants. American Scientist 73: 178-186.
Mar 27
JSTOR
Haufler, CH. 2002. Homospory 2002: An odyssey of progress in Pteridophyte genetics and evolutionary biology. BioScience 52 (12): 1081-1093.
Apr 1
e-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 8
e-reserves
Steeves, TA. 1983. The evolution and biological significance of seeds. Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 3550-3560.
Apr 15
BioOne
Friedman, W. E., and S. K. Floyd. 2001. Perspective: The origin of flowering plants and their reproductive biology - A tale of two phylogenies. Evolution 55: 217-231.
Apr 20
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
Apr 29
JSTOR

Burger, W. C. 1981. Why are there so many kinds of flowering plants? BioScience 31: 572-581.

Stebbins, G. L. 1981. Why are there so many species of flowering plants? BioScience 31: 573-577.

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