BIO 493/793

Molecular Ecology
Fall 2006

 

 

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8/30/2006 Nunez-Farfan J, Schlichting CD (2001) Evolution in changing environments: the “synthetic” work of Clausen, Keck, and Hiesey. Q Rev Biol. 76(4):433-57. Steve DiFazio pdf
8/30/2006 Schemske,D.W. and Bierzychudek,P. 2001. Perspective: Evolution of flower color in the desert annual Linanthus parryae: Wright revisited. Evolution 55: 1269-1282. Alyssa Hanna
9/6/2006 Hansson,B. and Westerberg,L. 2002. On the correlation between heterozygosity and fitness in natural populations. Molecular Ecology 11: 2467-2474. Rachel Wiechman pdf
9/6/2006 Lewontin,R.C. 1991. Twenty-Five Years Ago in GENETICS: Electrophoresis in the Development of Evolutionary Genetics: Milestone or Millstone? Genetics 128: 657-662. John Oliver pdf
9/13/2006 Schlotterer,C. 2004. The evolution of molecular markers - just a matter of fashion? Nature Reviews Genetics 5: 63-69. Christine Picard pdf
9/13/2006 Ellegren,H. 2004. Microsatellites: Simple sequences with complex evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics 5: 435-445. Sara Souther pdf
9/20/2006 Palmer,C., Bik,E.M., Eisen,M.B., Eckburg,P.B., Sana,T.R., Wolber,P.K., Relman,D.A., and Brown,P.O. 2006. Rapid quantitative profiling of complex microbial populations. Nucleic Acids Res. 34(1):E5. Ashley Robison pdf
9/20/2006 Lai,Z., Gross,B.L., Zou,Y., Andrews,J., and Rieseberg,L.H. 2006. Microarray analysis reveals differential gene expression in hybrid sunflower species. Molecular Ecology 15: 1213-1227. Brahma Reddy Induri pdf
9/27/2006 Slate,J. and Pemberton,J.M. 2002. Comparing molecular measures for detecting inbreeding depression. J. Evol. Biol. 15: 20-31. Lauren Dembeck
9/27/2006 Paun,O., Greilhuber,J., Temsch,E.M., and Horandl,E. 2006. Patterns, sources and ecological implications of clonal diversity in apomictic Ranunculus carpaticola (Ranunculus auricomus complex, Ranunculaceae). Molecular Ecology 15: 897-910. Becky McCauley pdf
10/11/2006 Jones,A.G. and Ardren,W.R. 2003. Methods of parentage analysis in natural populations. Molecular Ecology 12: 2511-2523. Michelle Thompson
10/11/2006 Petit,R.J., Aguinagalde,I., de Beaulieu,J.L., Bittkau,C., Brewer,S., Cheddadi,R., Ennos,R., Fineschi,S., Grivet,D., Lascoux,M., Mohanty,A., Muller-Starck,G.M., Demesure-Musch,B., Palme,A., Martin,J.P., Rendell,S., and Vendramin,G.G. 2003. Glacial refugia: Hotspots but not melting pots of genetic diversity. Science 300: 1563-1565. Sara Souther pdf
10/25/2006 Rieseberg,L.H., Raymond,O., Rosenthal,D.M., Lai,Z., Livingstone,K., Nakazato,T., Durphy,J.L., Schwarzbach,A.E., Donovan,L.A., and Lexer,C. 2003. Major ecological transitions in wild sunflowers facilitated by hybridization. Science 301: 1211-1216. John Oliver pdf
10/25/2006 Lexer,C., Fay,M.F., Joseph,J.A., Nica,M.S., and Heinze,B. 2005. Barrier to gene flow between two ecologically divergent Populus species, P alba (white poplar) and P tremula (European aspen): the role of ecology and life history in gene introgression. Molecular Ecology 14: 1045-1057. Ashley Robison pdf
11/8/2006 Voight,B.F., Kudaravalli,S., Wen,X.Q., and Pritchard,J.K. 2006. A map of recent positive selection in the human genome. Plos Biology 4: 446-458 Debolina Ganguly pdf
11/8/2006

Nielsen,R. 2005. Molecular signatures of natural selection. Annu. Rev Genet 39: 197-218.

Shalaka Desai pdf
11/15/2006 Bratteler,M., Lexer,C., and Widmer,A. 2006. Genetic architecture of traits associated with serpentine adaptation of Silene vulgaris. J. Evol. Biol. 19: 1149-1156. Heidi Pagan pdf
11/15/2006 Vasemagi,A. and Primmer,C.R. 2005. Challenges for identifying functionally important genetic variation: the promise of combining complementary research strategies. Molecular Ecology 14: 3623-3642. Steve DiFazio pdf
11/29/2006 Tringe,S.G. and Rubin,E.M. 2005. Metagenomics: DNA sequencing of environmental samples. Nature Reviews Genetics 6: 805-814. Becky McCauley pdf
11/29/2006 Whitham,T.G., Bailey,J.K., Schweitzer,J.A., Shuster,S.M., Bangert,R.K., LeRoy,C.J., Lonsdorf,E.V., Allan,G.J., DiFazio,S.P., Potts,B.M., Fischer,D.G., Gehring,C.A., Lindroth,R.L., Marks,J.C., Hart,S.C., Wimp,G.M., and Wooley,S.C. 2006. A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems. Nature Reviews Genetics 7: 510-523. Debolina Ganguly pdf