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.

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.
Feb 25
ejournals
Ellstrand, NC, R Whitkus, & LH Rieseberg. 1996. Distribution of spontaneous plant hybrids. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA 93: 5090-5093.

Rieseberg, LH. 1995. The role of hybridization in evolution: old wine in new skins. American Journal of Botany 82: 944-953.

Feb 27
ejournals
Soltis, PS & DE Soltis. 2000. The role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., USA 97: 7051-7057.
Mar 5
ejournals

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

Mar 8
ejournals
Graham, LE. 1985. The origin of the life cycle of land plants. American Scientist 73: 178-186.

Haufler, CH. 2002. Homospory 2002: An odyssey of progress in Pteridophyte genetics and evolutionary biology . BioScience 52: 1081-1093.
Mar 23
Moodle
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.
Mar 28
ejournals
Steeves, TA. 1983. The evolution and biological significance of seeds. Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 3550-3560.
Apr 6
ejournals
Friedman, WE, and SK Floyd. 2001. Perspective: The origin of flowering plants and their reproductive biology - A tale of two phylogenies. Evolution 55: 217-231.
Apr 12
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
April 27
ejournals
Vamosi JC & SM Vamosi. 2011. Factors influencing diversification in angiosperms: At the crossroads of intrinsic and extrinsic traits. American Journal of Botany 98: 460-471.

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