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Interesting tid-bits and papers (optional)
1) Wonder what "redintegration" means in Muller's influential paper of 1949???
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
Redintegration \Re*din`te*gra"tion\ (-gr?"sh?n), n. [L.
redintegratio.]
a. Restoration to a whole or sound state; renewal;
renovation. --Dr. H. More.
b. (Chem.) Restoration of a mixed body or matter to its
former nature and state. [Achaic.] --Coxe.
c. (Psychology) The law that objects which have been
previously combined as part of a single mental state tend
to recall or suggest one another; -- adopted by many
philosophers to explain the phenomena of the association
of ideas.
2) On Sept. 9, Andy mentioned an interesting paper about published articles being biased toward positive results. Check that paper out here.
3) Richard Gomulkiewicz has a book chapter in press about applying genetic models to conservation ("Conservation Implications of Niche Conservatism and Evolution in Heterogeneous Environments"). It's available in the folder outside Jessica's office (24C, hut B6).
4) A paper that Tony Sinclair mentioned on Sept. 6 about predation on endangered prey species.
5) Rosemary and Peter Grant's most recent paper on the divergence of finches on islands. (Related to our Sept. 23 discussion)
6) A paper on the ecological differences of moths and butterflies -- nocturnality vs. diurnality. (Related to our Sept. 23 discussion)
7) Laura found a new book about Kettlewell's experiments, check it out here and a review of it by Art Shapiro here. For a great scientific review see this essay by Jerry Coyne. He's reviewing a book by Michael Majerus.
7b) Thanks Graham for these great refs about peppered moths and detoxifying compounds that are also related to pigmentation:
Grand et al. 1996. Journal of Heredity
Yu and Nguyen. 1996. Pestidice Biochemistry and Physiology
Vetten et al. 1999. PNAS
8) Regarding our discussion about the diversification of plants, insects, and plant-insect associations, check out this paper and this paper
9) Someone asked if anyone had followed-up on Ehrlich and Raven by comparing phylogenies of butterfiles and plants. Check this out.
10) Regarding our discussion about extinction risk and species richness of clades, check out this paper as suggested by Arne Mooers at SFU
11) Regarding cladistics vs. phenetics, I found the following sites that may be educational:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/clad/clad1.html
http://www.icp.ucl.ac.be/~opperd/private/phenetics.html
http://www.palaeos.com/Systematics/Cladistics/cladistics.htm
Photocopies of a section of Paul Ehrlich's book, A World of Wounds: Ecologists and the Human Dilemma, that discusses phenetics, cladistics, and conservation biology are available outside Jessica's office door.
The review of a book on phylogenetics that Andy mentioned in class.
12) You might find this website interesting; it describes speaker, Erin Bayne.
13) Art Shapiro's review of Of Moths and Men (above) has some interesting relevance to our reading of classic ecological literature. He says:
"If Kettlewell had little or no input from Ford and Fisher, his mistakes are that much more understandable. But no one else was doing this kind of thing, and was there anyone around in 1953 who might have done it better?
As an experiment, read a few issues of Evolution or Ecology or American Naturalist from around 1950.
A surprising amount of what you read will be downright embarrassing by today's standards. But it was "cutting edge" then.
To damn Kettlewell 50 years after the fact is of a piece with using contemparary notions of "political correctness" to damn Shakespeare as an anti-Semite or banish Mark Twain from the curriculum because of the n-word."
14) Other articles by Simberloff regarding the 6 treated mangrove islands: "Experimental zoogeography of islands:..."
...Effects of island size
...A two-year record of colonization
...A Model for insular colonization (published back-to-back with the article we read)
...Defuanation and monitoring techniques (published back-to back with the article we read)
15) Simberloff and Wilson's paper mentions "Haeckel's biogenetic law" (p. 284). The definition of this law is: "The theory that the stages in an organism's embryonic development and differentiation correspond to the stages of evolutionary development characteristic of the species" (American Heritage Dictionary). In other words, "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." Haeckel's law is neither true nor false but interesting nonetheless.
16) Interesting paper on the maintenance of diversity in microbial model systems (related to the paper by Travisano and Rainey).
17) Some good finds from Dan on terrestrial versus marine diversity by May and on the diversity of the deep-sea by Smith et al (first article on the E-Journal page).
18) I hear that you guys talked about R* on Monday (10/28). This is the original paper where Tilman proposes the resource-ratio hypothesis. The hypothesis is about how plants coexist although they require the same resources. Tilman hypothesized that they do so by having differntial rates of resource use.
19) An interesting article from Brad on mutuation and the role of sex in eliminating deleterious mutations. He thought you might find this interesting in the context of our discussions on mutational load.
20) An article explaining lots of terms about flower symmetry (relevant to the paper we read by Ree and Donoghue).
21) Brian thought that we might find this paper interesting. It addresses soil diversity and its implicaitons for global change (as related to our meeting with Patrick Carrier)
22) Regarding our discussion on species-abundance distributions, you might find the following three papers interesting. The first is a later paper by Preston that follows-up on his canonical hypothesis. The second is a paper that puts forth an ecological interpretation for the lognormal distribution. The third is a modern example of how lognormals are still be used in ecology today - in this case to estimate diversity of microbial communities.
23) Regarding our discussion of classical papers in popualtion genetics, its interesting to read about the life of Dobzhansky as described by the American Philosophical Society.