| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Sept | None | General planning and discussion |
| 18 Sept | Sam Yeaman | Mery et al. (2007) Natural polymorphism affecting learning and memory in Drosophila. PNAS 104: 13051-13055. |
| 25 Sept | Jon Mee | Kellermann et al. (2009) Fundamental evolutionary limits in ecological traits drive Drosophila species distributions. Science 325: 1244-1246. |
| 2 Oct | Itay Mayrose | Mitchell et al. (2009) Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms. Nature 460: 220-4. |
| 9 Oct | Dave Toews & Sampath Seneviratne |
White et al. (2009) Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids. Science 326: 64 & 75-85. |
| 16 Oct | Jasmine Ono | Tirosh et al. (2009) A yeast hybrid provides insight into the evolution of gene expression regulation. Science 324: 659-662. |
| 23 Oct | Anne Dalziel | Hanifin et al. (2008) Phenotypic mismatches reveal escape from arms-race coevolution. PLoS Biology 6: 471-482. |
| 30 Oct | Kieran Samuk | Linksvayer et al. (2009). Honeybee social regulatory networks are shaped by colony‐level selection. The American Naturalist 173: E99-E107. |
| 6 Nov | Symposium | The Meaning and Role of Theory in Evolutionary Biology, Green College, all day. Normal EDG cancelled this week. |
| 13 Nov | Laura Southcott | Barrick et al. (2009) Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli. Nature 461: 1243-1247. |
| 20 Nov | Gina Conte | Roberts et al. (2009) Sexual conflict resolved by invasion of a novel sex determiner in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes. Science 326: 998-1001. |
| 27 Nov | Joe Felsenstein | Using molecular data and paleontological data together: Is there a phylogenetic statistical method for fossil morphology? Background reading: Felsenstein (2002) Quantitative characters, phylogenies, and morphometrics. pp. 27-44 in Morphology, Shape, and Phylogenetics, edited by N. MacLeod. Systematics Association Special Volume Series 64. Taylor and Francis, London. |
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