| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 15 | Darren Irwin |
Bazin, Glémin, and Galtier. 2006. Population Size
Does Not Influence Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity in
Animals. Science 312: 570-572
Supp. Mat. Perspective: Adam Eyre-Walker. Size Does Not Matter for Mitochondrial DNA Science 312: 537-538. |
| Sept. 22 | Tim Vines | Whibley
et al. Evolutionary Paths Underlying Flower Color
Variation in Antirrhinum. Science 313: 963-966
Perspectives: Traversing the Adaptive Landscape in Snapdragon. Science 313: 924-925 |
| Sept. 29 | Jan Conn | Seminar: Phylogeography of Neotropical Malaria Vectors |
| Oct. 6 | Crispin Jordan | Hanski & Saccheri. 2006. Molecular-Level Variation Affects Population Growth in a Butterfly Metapopulation. PLoS Biology 4: 719-726 |
| Oct. 13 | Patricio Salazar |
Prud'homme et al. 2006. Repeated
morphological evolution through cis-regulatory
changes in a pleiotropic gene. Nature 440: 1050-1053
Supplementary files News and Views: Wray, G.A. 2005. Spot on (and off). Nature 440: 1001-1002 |
| Oct. 20 | Travis Ingram | Pagel et al. 2006. Large Punctuational Contribution of Speciation to
Evolutionary Divergence at the Molecular Level. Science
314 (5796): 119 - 121
Pagel et al. 2006. Supplementary Material |
| Oct. 27 | Anne Dalziel | Salvador & Savageau. 2006 Evolution of enzymes in a series is driven
by dissimilar functional demands. PNAS 103 (7): 2226-2231.
Salvador & Savageau. 2006. Supplementary material |
| Nov. 3 | Jon Mee | Grant & Grant. 2006. Evolution of character displacement in Darwin's
finches. Science 313: 224-226
Grant & Grant. 2006. Supplementary material |
| Nov. 10 | Nolan Kane |
Keightley
& Otto. 2006. Interference among deleterious
mutations favours sex and recombination in finite
populations. Nature 443: 89-92
Keightley & Otto. 2006. Supplementary material |
| Nov. 17 | Emily Drummond |
Sanjuan
& Elena. 2006. Epistasis correlates to genomic complexity. PNAS 103(39):14402-14405.
Sanjuan & Elena. 2006. Supplementary material |
| Nov. 24 | Leithen M'Gonigle | Bshary
& Grutter. 2006. Image scoring and cooperation in a
cleaner fish mutualism. Nature 441: 975-978.
Bshary & Grutter. 2006. Supplementary material Bshary & Grutter. 2006. News and views |
| Dec. 1 | Brian Alters | "Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the SSHRC" |
| Dec. 8 | Heather Maughan | Evans et al. 2006.Evidence that the adaptive allele of the brain size gene microcephalin introgressed into Homo sapiens from an archaic Homo lineage. PNAS 103(48): 18178-18183. |
| Dec. 15 | Caroline Ames | O'Connor et al. 2006. Extra-pair fertilisation and effective population size in the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia) Journal of Avian Biology 37: 572-578. |
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