COURSE SCHEDULE: (Spring 2013)

Lectures are held from 10:00-10:50 AM, M/W/F, in Eliot 207
Lab meets W or Th afternoon from 1:10-5:00 PM in B219

Lecture handouts and powerpoint files are available from the Courses AFS Server

 

Date Lecture Reading* Laboratory
Jan 28
Jan 30
Feb 1		 Evolutionary perspective
Species concept(s) for plants
Species concept(s) for plants
Rieseberg & Willis (2007); Mayr (1992)
 		 Introduction to Plant Taxonomy
(PLANT FAMILIES I)
Feb 4
Feb 6
Feb 8

Species concept(s) for plants
Reproductive isolation
Reproductive isolation
Kephart & Heiser, Jr. (1980); Broyles, et al. (1996)
 		 Phylogeny reconstruction:
Data collection
(PLANT FAMILIES II)
Feb 11
Feb 13
Feb 15		 Evolution of RI
Evolution of RI
Modes of speciation		   Phylogeny reconstruction:
Data collection
(PLANT FAMILIES III)
Feb 18
Feb 20
Feb 22		 Modes of speciation
Hybridization and introgression
Hybridization and introgression		   Phylogeny reconstruction:
Cladistics (PAUP & MacClade)
(PLANT FAMILIES IV)
Feb 25
Feb 27
Mar 1		 EXAM I
Polyploidy
Polyploidy		 Phylogeny reconstruction:
Cladistics (PAUP & MacClade)
(PLANT FAMILIES V)
Mar 4
Feb 6
Mar 8		 Genetics of species differences
Genetics of species differences
Origins of the Plant Kingdom		   Sexual dimorphism of Indian Plum
(PLANT FAMILIES VI)
Discussion: Independent Projects
Mar 11
Mar 13
Mar 15		 Land Plant diversification
Land Plant diversification
Alternation of generations: homospory		   Density and sex-expression in ferns
(PLANT FAMILIES VII)
Mar 16-24 SPRING BREAK
Mar 25
Mar 27
Mar 29		 Special Lecture: library resources
Reproduction: free-sporing plants
Reproduction: free-sporing plants		   FIELD TRIP: Lacamas Park, WA
***Independent Project proposals due in Lab***
Apr 1
Apr 3
Apr 5		 Heterospory & origin of seeds
Heterospory & origin of seeds
Reproduction: seed plants		  
PLANT FAMILIES: quiz
Independent Projects:
consultation
Apr 8
Apr 10
Apr 12		 Seed plant gametophytes
EXAM II
Reproduction: flowering plants		   Independent Projects:
Apr 13
(SATURDAY)		 FIELD TRIP: COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE
Apr 15
Apr 17
Apr 19		 Flowering plant origins
Mating system diversity & evolution
Mating system diversity & evolution		   Independent Projects:
Apr 22
Apr 24
Apr 26		 Outcrossing mechanisms
Outcrossing mechanisms
Self-fertilization

 

 Independent Projects:
Apr 29
May 1
May 3		 Asexual reproduction
Populations and neighborhoods
Flowering plant dominance		   Independent Projects:
presentations in lab
May 13
(1PM - 4PM)		 EXAM III


*ASSIGNED READING

Readings from the research literature will be assigned for each topic and linked on the Reading page, supplemented by optional reading from the folllowing book which is on 2-hour reserve in the Library:
      Briggs, D., and S. M. Walters. 1997. Plant variation and evolution, third edition. Cambridge University Press, NY.

For the laboratory there is also a recommended text:
    Zomlefer, W. R. 1994. Guide to flowering plant families. Univ. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC.