Journal Review

The course is a weekly review of important papers, topical reviews, methodologies, or software published during last 12 months in the broad field of systematics – as it applies to the classification, phylogeny, and evolution of plants (and related organisms). Papers can deal tangentially with ecology, biogeography, paleobotany, plant-animal / fungal / bacerial co-evolution, morphological evolution, gene evolution, genome evolution, etc. but MUST have a systematic or phylogenetic flavor.


Sept 6	Ken Cameron	Organization; Barrett, CF and JV Freudenstein 2011 Molecular Ecology 20: 2771-2786

Sept 13	Ken Sytsma	Bell, Soltis, and Soltis 2010 American Journal of Botany 97: 1296-1303 - Questions on Bell& paper; other refs.: Wikstrom&al 2001, Renner 2005, Donoghue and Benton 2007, Forest 2009, MagallonCastillo 2009, Magallon 2010, Smith&al 2010

Sept 20	Biology Colloquium paper	Libkind et al. 2011 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA - Questions on Libkind paper; other refs.: Knapp et al. 2011, Hawksworth 2011

Sept 27	Biology Colloquium paper	Mayrose et al. 2011 Science & Wood et al. 2009 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA - Questions on the 2 Barker papers: other refs: Mayrose supplementary; Wood supplementary

Oct 4	Rafael Arevalo	Pennington et al. 2010 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA & Antonelli and Sanmartin 2011 Taxon - Questions on the 2 papers: other refs: Antonelli et al. 2009; Hoorn et al. 2010; Garzione et al. 2008

Oct 11	Group paper	Oberle and Schaal 2011 Responses to historical climate change identify contemporary threats to diversity in Dodecatheon (PNAS) - Questions on Oberle & Schaal paper; Oberle supplementary material; other refs: Mast et al. 2004; Mast and Reveal 2007

Oct 18	Daniel Spalink	Beatty and Provan 2011 Phylogeographic analysis of North American populations of the parasitic herbaceous plant Monotropa hypopitys L. reveals a complex history of range expansion from multiple late glacial refugia (J Biog.) - Questions; other refs: phylogeographic analysis of Orthilia with recolonization only from the west - Beatty and Provan 2010; a review of refugia - Bennett and Provan 2008; northern refugia - Rowe et al. 2004; introduction to MAXENT - Phillips et al. 2006

Oct 25	Alejandro Zuluaga	Edwards et al. 2010 The origins of C4 grasslands: integrating evolutionary and ecosystem science (Science) & Edwards and Smith 2010 Phylogenetic analyses reveal the shady history of C4 grasses (PNAS) - Questions; other refs: C4 evolution in Cleome - Feodorova et al. 2010; C4 evolution in chenopods - Kadereit & Freitag 2011; C4 age dicots vs. monocots - Christin et al. 2011

Nov 1	John Zaborsky	Ramdhani et al. 2011 Revisiting monophyly in Haworthia Duval (Asphodelaceae): Incongruence, hybridization and contemporary speciation (Taxon) - Questions; supplementary readings: Treutlein et al. 2003a, Treutlein et al. 2003b, comment by Bayer

Nov 8	No class

Nov 15	Alison Scott	Nagalingum et al. 2011 Recent synchronous radiation of a living fossil (Science) - Questions; online supplementary material

Nov 22	Brian Sidoti	Jardon-Barbolla et al. 2011 Phylogeography of Pinus subsection Australes in the Caribbean Basin (Annals of Botany) - Questions; online supplementary material 1, 2, 3

Nov 29	Matthew Pace	Steiner et al. 2011 Strong phylogenetic effects of floral scent variation of oil-secreting orchids in South Africa (American Journal of Botany) - Questions; supplementary reading: Waterman et al. 2009

Dec 6	Giovanny Giraldo	Yu et al. 2011 Phylogeny and biogeography of Chinese Heracleum (Apiaceae) . . . (Plant Systematics Evolution) - Questions

Dec 13

Botany 940 - Systematics Seminar