Course Reading

Date
Topic
 Reading
Sept 8
Do species boundaries result from ecological or floral isolation? Grant, V. 1952. Isolation and hybridization between Aquilegia formosa and A. pubescens. El Aliso 2: 341-360.

Chase, V. A., and P. H. Raven. 1975. Evolutionary and ecological relationships between Aquilegia formosa and A. pubescens (Ranunculaceae), two perennial plants. Evolution 29: 474-486.

Hodges, S. A., and M. L. Arnold. 1994. Floral and ecological isolation between Aquilegia formosa and Aquilegia pubescens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 91: 2493-2496.
Sept 15

Non-Mendelian inheritance: the case of hothead

Lolle, SJ, JL Victor, JM Young, and RE Pruitt. 2005. Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature 434: 505-509.

Chaudhury, A. 2005. Plant genetics - Hothead healer and extragenomic information; Ray, A. 2005. Plant genetics - RNA cache genome trash? Nature 437: E1-E2. [both letters and Lolle et al.'s response can be found on the pdf of Ray (2005)].

Comai, L, & RA Cartwright. 2005. A toxic mutator and selection alternative to the non-Mendelian RNA cache hypothesis for hothead reversion. Plant Cell 17: 2856-2858.

Sept 22
Heat shock proteins and plant evolution Queitsch C, TA Sangster, and S Lindquist. 2002. Hsp90 as a capacitor of phenotypic variation. Nature 417: 618–624.

Sangster, TA, N Salathia, S Undurraga, R Milo, K Schellenberg, S Lindquist, C Queitsch. 2008. HSP90 affects the expression of genetic variation and developmental stability in quantitative traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105: 2963-2968.

Sept 29
Evolution of selfing Barrett, SCH. 2010. Understanding plant reproductive diversity. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 365: 99-109..

Tang, C, C Toomajian, S Sherman-Broyles, V Plagnol, Y Guo, TT Hu, RM Clark, JB Nasrallah, D Weigel, & M Nordborg. 2007. The evolution of selfing in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 317: 1070-1072.

Guoa, Y, JS Bechsgaard, T Slotte, B Neuffer, M Lascoux, D Weigel, & MH Schierup. 2009. Recent speciation of Capsella rubella from Capsella grandiflora, associated with loss of self-incompatibility and an extreme bottleneck. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106: 5246-5251
Oct. 6
Evolution of C4 grasses

Edwards, EJ, CP Osborne, CAE Strömberg, SA Smith, & C4 Grasses Consortium. 2010. The origins of C4 grasslands: integrating evolutionary and ecosystem science. Science 328: 587-591.

Edwards, EJ, & SA Smith. 2010. Phylogenetic analyses reveal the shady history of C4 grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 107: 2532-2537

Oct. 13
Evolution of genome size

Knight, CA, NA Molinari, & DA Petrov. 2005. The large genome constraint hypothesis: evolution, ecology and phenotype. Annals of Botany 95: 177-190.

Ryan K. Oyama, RK, MJ Clauss, N Formanová, J Kroymann, KJ Schmid, H Vogel, K Weniger, AJ Windsor & T Mitchell-Olds. 2008. The shrunken genome of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Systematics and Evolution 273: 257-271.
Oct. 27
Evolution of plant volatiles

Pichersky, E, & J Gershenzon. 2002. The formation and function of plant volatiles: perfumes for pollinator attraction and defense. Curr Opin Plant Biol 5: 237-243.

Abel, C, M Clauss, A Schaub, J Gershenzon, & D Tholl. 2009. Floral and insect-induced volatile formation in Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea, a perennial, outcrossing relative of A. thaliana. Planta 230: 1–11.
Nov. 3
Evolution of floral pigments

Clegg, MT, & ML Durbin. 2003. Tracing floral adaptations from ecology to molecules. Nature Reviews Genetics 4: 206-215.

he cyanobacterial genome core and the evolution of photosynthesis. Evolution 62: 1076-1085.
Nov. 10
Molecular evolution of carnviorous plants

Chase, MW, MJM Christenhusz,D Sanders, & MF Fay. 2009. Murderous plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and modern insights into vegetable carnivory. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 329–356.

Jobson, RW, & VA Albert. 2002. Molecular rates parallel diversification contrasts between carnviorous plant sister lineages. Cladistics 18: 127-136.
PDF In the course folder on the AFS Courses server.
Nov. 17
Molecular evolution of self-incomaptibility

Newbigin, E, T Paape, & JR Kohn. 2008. RNase-based self-incompatibility: puzzled by pollen S. The Plant Cell 20: 2286-2292.

Kubo, K, T Entani, A Takara, N Wang, AM Fields, Z Hua, M Toyoda, S Kawashima, T Ando, A Isogai, T Kao, & S Takayama. 2010. Collaborative non-self recognition system in S-RNAse–based self-incompatibility. Science 330: 796 - 799.
Nov. 24
Thanksgiving

 
Dec. 1

Evolution of photosynthesis

Xiong, J. 2006. Photosynthesis: what color was its origin?. Genome Biology 7:245.

Mulkidjanian, AY, EV Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, SL Mekhedov, A Sorokin, YI Wolf, A Dufresne, F Partensky, H Burd, D Kaznadzey, R Haselkorn, & MY Galperin. 2006. The cyanobacterial genome core and the evolution of photosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 13126-13131.
Dec. 8

TBA

toppings to be announced