Week 5.
September 25th: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
pairs of students will present primary research papers regarding genes
and behaviors.
SEE ASSIGNMENT
read:
check back, these papers will be posted 1 week before class.
Discussion Questions: Non-presenting students
are expected to have read and be prepared to discuss 2 of the 5 papers
that are being presents. Answers to the presenters' Discussion Questions
should be typed and brought to class and amended during the discussion.
Discussin
Questions will be posted 1 week before presentation with papers.
September 27th: Male Strategies and Assessment
Males of many species come in alternate morphs. For example the image
here shows an African Cichlid, Lamprologus callipterus. In this species,
males are either large "nest males" who collect shells in which
the female will lay her eggs, and the very small "dwarf males" hide hoping
to sneak a mating with the female. (for more detail see Taborsky, 2001)
read:
Sinervo chapter 9
Gross, M.R. (1996) Alternative reproductive strategies and tactics: diversity
within sexes. TREE 11:92-98.
The following examples will be used in class as well:
Zimmerer & Kallman
(1989) Genetic Basis for Alternative Reproductive
Tactics inthe Pygmy Swordtail Xiphophorus nigrensis. Evolution: 43:1298-1307/
Tomkins and Brown
(2004) Population density drives the local
evolution of a threshold dimorphism. Nature 451:1099-1103.
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