Course Reading: (Fall 2011)

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
Sept 1

library
reserves

review H-W and population genetics of Bio 101 text

Preface & Chapter 1, Beebee & Rowe  (2008) An Introduction to Molecular Ecology, 2nd ed. (2-hour reserve)

Sept 8
(conf)
ejournals
Burlingame (1921) Variation and heredity in Lupinus. American Naturlaist 60: 427-448.

Harding (1970) Genetics of Lupinus. II. the selective disadvantage of the pink flower color mutant in Lupinus nanus. Evolution 24:120-127.
Sept 8
ejournals
Parker, PA, AA Snow, MD Schug. GC Booton, and PA Fuerst. 1998. What molecules can tell us about populations: choosing and using a molecular marker. Ecology 79: 361-382.
Sept 15
(conf)
ejournals
Esselman, EJ, L Jianqiang, DJ Crawford, JL Winduss, & AD Wolfe (1999) Clonal diversity in the rare Calamagrostis porteri ssp. insperata (Poaceae): comparative results for allozymes and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers. Molecular Ecology 8: 443-451.
Sept 22
(conf)
ejournals
Saar, DE, NO Polans, PD Sorensen, and MR Duvall. 2001. Angiosperm DNA contamination by endophytic fungi: detection and methods of avoidance. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 19(3) 249-260.
Sept 29
(conf)
ejournals
Constable, JL, MV Ashley, J Goodall, & AE Pusey. 2001. Noninvasive paternity assignment in Gombe chimpanzees. Molecular Ecology 10: 1279-1300.
Oct 6
(conf)
ejournals
Stenström, A, BO Jonsson, IS Jónsdóttir, T Fagerström, & A Magnus. 2001. Genetic variation and clonal diversity in four clonal sedges (Carex) along the Arctic coast of Eurasia. Molecular Ecology 10: 497-513.
Oct 13
(conf)
ejournals
Schmidt-Adam, G, AG Young, & BG Murra. 2000. Low outcrossing rates and shift in pollinators in New Zealand pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa; Myrtaceae). American Journal of Botany 87: 1265-1271.
Oct 27
(conf)
ejournals
Roeder, AD, RK Marshall, AJ Mitchelson, T Visagathilagar, PA Ritchie, DR Love, TJ Pakai, HC McPartlan, ND Murray, NA Robinson, KR Kerry, & DM Lambert. 2001. Gene flow on the ice: genetic differentiation among Adélie penguin colonies around Antarctica. Molecular Ecology 10: 1645-1656.
Nov 3
(conf)
ejournals
Waldick, RC, SS Kraus, M Brown, & N White. 2002. Evaluating the effects of historic bottleneck events: an assessment of microsatellite variability in the endangered, North Atlantic right whale. Molecular Ecology 11: 2241-2250.
Nov 10
(conf)
ejournals
Ehrich, D, VB Fedorov, NC Stenseth, CJ Krebs & A Kenney. 2000. Phylogeography and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity in North American collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus). Molecular Ecology 9: 329-337.
Nov 17
(conf)
ejournals
Bekessy SA, RA Ennos, MA Burgman, AC Newton, & PK Ades. 2003. Neutral DNA markers fail to detect genetic divergence in an ecologically important trait. Biological Conservation 110: 267-275.
Nov 22
(students)
ejournals
ETHAN: Kettle, CJ, PM Hollingsworth, T Jaffré, B Moran, & RA Ennos. 2007. Identifying the early genetic consequences of habitat degradation in a highly threatened tropical conifer, Araucaria nemorosa Laubenfels. Molecular Ecology 16: 3581–3591.

E.T.: Kobmoo, N. M Hossaert-McKey, JY Rasplus, & F Kjellberg. 2010. Ficus racemosa is pollinated by a single population of a single agaonid wasp species in continental South-East Asia. Molecular Ecology 19: 2700-2712.
Nov 29
(students)
ejournals
AMANUEL: Kauserud, H, IB Svegården, G Sætre, H Knudsen, Ø Stensrud, O Schmidt, S Doi, Y Sugiyama, & N Högberg. 2007. Asian origin and rapid global spread of the destructive dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans. Molecular Ecology 16: 3350–3360.

HUNTER: Dépraz, A, M Cordellier, J Hausser, & M Pfenninger. 2008. Postglacial recolonization at a snail's pace (Trochulus villosus): confronting competing refugia hypotheses using model selection. Molecular Ecology 17: 2449-2462.
Dec 1
(students)
ejournals
EMILY: Mayrose, M, NC Kane, I Mayrose, KM Dlugosch, & LH Rieseberg. 2011. Increased growth in sunflower correlates with reduced defences and altered gene expression in response to biotic and abiotic stress. Molecular Ecology 20: 4683–4694

KATE: Mikheyev, AS, T Vo & UG Mueller. 2008. Phylogeography of post-Pleistocene population expansion in a fungus-gardening ant and its microbial mutualists. Molecular Ecology 17: 4480–4488.