Journal Club Articles:

Our lab meets weekly to discuss scientific articles that are relevant to our research or of general interest. Below is an archive of the papers that we have read starting from January 2012:

Spring Quarter 2014:

May/23: Winemiller, K.O., and 7 coauthors. 2010. Stable isotope analysis reveals food web structure and watershed impacts along the fluvial gradient of a Mesoamerican coastal river. River Research and Applications, DOI: 10.1002/rra.1396.

May/2: Ramler, D., P. Mitteroecker, L.N.S. Shama, K.M. Wegner, & H. Ahnelt. 2014. Nonlinear effects of temperature on body form and developmental canalization in the threespine stickleback. Journal of Evolutionary Biolog doi: 10.1111/jeb.12311.

Apr/25: Adams, D.C., F.. Rohlf, D.E. Slice. 2013. A field comes of age: geometric morphometrics in the 21st century. Hysrix, the Italian Journal of Mammology 24:7-14.

Apr/11: Bauer, S., and B.J. Hoye. 2014. Migratory animals couple biodiversity and ecosystem functioning worldwide. Science 344 (4 April): 10.1126/science.1242552.

Winter Quarter 2014:

Feb/27: Vannote, R.L., G.W. Minshall, K.W. Cummins, J.R. Sedell, and C.E. Cushing. 1980. The river continuum concept. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 37: 130-137.

Feb/13: Cosseau, C., A. Azzi, A. Rognon, J. Boisseir, S. Gourbiere, E. Roger, G. Mitta, and C. Grunau. 2010. Epigenetic and phenotypic variability in populations of Schistosoma mansoni - a possible kick-off for adaptive host/parasite evolution. Oikos 119:669-678.

Feb/6: O'Brien, S.J., M.E. Roelke, L. Marker, A. Newman, C.A. Winkler, D. Meltzer, L.Colly, J.F. Evermann, M. Bush and D.E. Wildt. 1985. Genetic Basis for Species Vulnerability in the Cheetah. Science 227:1428-1434.

Jan/30: Hoke, K., A. Schwartz, and D. Soares. 2012. Evolution of the fast start response in the cavefish Astyanax mexicanus. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 66:1157–1164.

Jan/23: Martin,S.H., K.K. Dasmahapatra, N.J. Nadeau, C. Salazar, J.R. Walters, F. Simpson, M. Blaxter, A. Manica, J. Mallet, and C.D. Jiggins. 2013. Genome-wide evidence for speciation with gene flow in Heliconius butterflies. Genome Research DOI: 10.1101/gr.159426.113. (2nd Try)

Jan 15: Cahill and nine coauthors. 2013. Causes of warm-edge range limits: systematic review, proximate factors and implications for climate change. Journal of Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12231.

Fall Quarter 2013:

Nov 15: Martin,S.H., K.K. Dasmahapatra, N.J. Nadeau, C. Salazar, J.R. Walters, F. Simpson, M. Blaxter, A. Manica, J. Mallet, and C.D. Jiggins. 2013. Genome-wide evidence for speciation with gene flow in Heliconius butterflies. Genome Research DOI: 10.1101/gr.159426.113.

Nov 1: Wellik, D.M. 2007. Hox patterning of the vertebral axial skeleton. Developmental Dynamics 236:2454-2463.

Oct 25: Varela-Lasheras, I., A.J. Bakker, S.D. van der Mije, J.A.J. Metz, J. van Alphen, and F. Galis. 2011. Breaking evolutionary and pleiotropic constraints in mammals: On sloths, manatees and homeotic mutations. EvoDevo 2:11.

Oct 18: Ketola, T., L. Mikonranta, J. Zhang, K. Saarinen, A.M. Ormala, V.P. Friman, j. Mappes, and J. Laakso. 2013. Fluctuating temperature leads to evolution of thermal generalism and preadaptation to novel environments. Evolution 67:2936-2944.

Oct 11: Gibson, L., Lynam, A.J., Bradshaw, C.A.J, Fangliang H., Bickford, D.P., Woodruff, D.S., Bumrungsri, S., Laurance, W.F. 2013. Near-Complete Extinction of Native Small Mammal Fauna 25 Years After Forest Fragmentation. Science 341:1508-1510.

Sep 27: Robertson, B.A., J.S. Rehage, and S. Sih. 2013. Ecological novelty and the emergence of evolutionary traps. TREE 28:552-560.

Spring Quarter 2013:

May 22: Amemiya, C.T., et al. 2013. The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution. Nature 496:311-316.

May 8: Woltering, J.M. 2012. From lizard to snake; behind the evolution of an extreme body plan. Current Genomics 13:289-299.

May 1: Wong, A., N. Rodrigue, and R. Kassen. 2012. Genomics of adaptation during experimental evolution of the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLOS Genetics Vol. 8, Issue 9, e1002928.

Apr 24: Zhu, F., and 12 co-authors. 2011. Clustered patterns of species origins of nature-derived drugs and clues for future bioprospecting. PNAS 108:12943-12948.

Apr 17: Winter, M., V. Devictor, and Schweiger. 2013. Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we? TREE 28:199-204.

Winter Quarter 2013:

Mar 8: Palm, N.W., R.K. Rosenstein, and R. Medzhitov. 2012. Allergic host defences. Nature 484:465-472.

Mar 1: Jones, F.C., et al. 2012. The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks.Nature 484:55-61.

Feb 22: Angers, B., E. Castonguay, and R. Massicotte. 2010. Environmentally induced phenotypes and DNA methylation: how to deal with unpredictable conditions until the next generation and after. Molecular Ecology 19:1283-1295.

Feb 8: Herbert, P.D.N., A. Cywinska, S.L. Ball, and J.R. deWaard. 2003. Biological identifications through DNA barcodes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270:313-321.

Feb 1: Ward, A.B., and R.S. Mehta. 2010. Axial Elongation in Fishes: Using Morphological Approaches to Elucidate Developmental Mechanisms in Studying Body Shape. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50:1106-1119.

Jan 25: Sutherland, W.J., S. Bardsley, M. Clout, M.H. Depledge, L.V. Dicks, L. Fellman, E. Fleishman, D.W. Gibbons, B. Keim, F. Lickorish, C. Margerison, K.A. Monk, K. Norris, L.S. Peck, S.V. Prior, J.P.W. Scharlemann, M.D. Spalding, and A.R. Watkinson. 2013. A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2013. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:16-22.

Fall Quarter 2012:

I've been on research leave this quarter but we have read the following two papers with students from Ecuador in November:

Nov 14:Calle, D.A., M.L. Quinones, H.F. Erazo, N. Jaramillo. 2008. Descriminacion por morfometria geometrica de once especies de Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) presentes en Colombia. Biomedica 28:371-385.

Nov 7: Toro Ibacache, M.V., G. Manriquez Soto, and I. Suazo Galdames. 2010. Morformetria geometrica y el estudio de las formas biologicas: de la morfologia descriptiva a la morfologia cuantitativa. International Journal of Morphology 28:977-990.

Spring Quarter 2012:

May 15:Collyer, M.L., J.S. Heiveil, and C.A. Stockwell. 2011. Contemporary evolutionary divergence for a protected species following assisted colonization. PLoS One 6:1-7.

May 8: Huxley-Jones, E., J.L.A. Shaw, C. Fletcher, J. Parnell, and P.C. Watts. 2012. Use of DNA Barcoding to Reveal Species Composition of Convenience Seafood. Conservation Biology 26:367-371.

May 1: Hailer, F. and 7 coauthors. 2012. Nuclear Genomic Sequences Reveal that Polar Bears Are an Old and Distinct Bear Lineage. Science 336:344-347.

Apr 17: Violle, C., and 7 coauthors. 2012. The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27:244-252.

Apr 10: Desrochers, A. 2010. Morphological response of songbirds to 100 years of landscape change in North America. Ecology 91:1577-1582.

Apr 3: Kolbe, J.J., M. Leal, T.W. Schoener, D.A. Spiller, and J.B. Losos. 2012. Founder effects persist despite adaptive differentiation. Science 335:1086-1089.

Winter Quarter 2012:

Feb 23: Sax, D.F., and eleven other authors. Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:465-471.

Feb 16: Marentette, J.R., J.L. Fitzpatrick, R.G. Berger, S. Balshine. 2009. Multiple male reproductive morphs in the invasive round goby (Apollonia melanostoma). Journal of Great Lakes Research 35:302–308.

Feb 2: The Marie Curie SPECIATION Network. 2012. What do we know about speciation? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27:27-39.

Jan 26: Rajakumar, R. and eight other authors. 2012. Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants. Science 335:79-82.

Jan 19: Johnson, L.S., and Taylor, E.B. 2004. The distribution of divergent mitochondrial DNA lineages of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in the northeastern Pacific Basin: post-glacial dispersal and lake accessibility. Journal of Biogeography 31:1073–1083.