Readings: Spring 2022
Reading will be available from either the library's 3-hour reserve (print media), or through the library's ejournals collection (linked in the table below).
For ejournal access from off-campus, you may need to set up the Reed proxy - more info here.
Date* |
Location |
Reading |
Jan 24 |
etext |
for review: Clark et al. 2018. Biology, 2e. OpenStax. Chs. 19.1 & 19.2
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Jan 26 |
ejournals |
Rieseberg, LH & JH Willis. 2007. Plant speciation. Science 317: 910-914. |
Feb 2
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ejournals
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Mayr, E. 1992. A local flora and the biological species concept. American Journal of Botany 79: 222-238. [focus on Part B, pp. 231-236]
Knapp, S. 2008. Species concepts and floras: what are species for? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95: 17-25
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for lab weeks 2-5 |
ejournals |
Baum, et al. 2005. The tree-thinking challenge. Science 310: 979-980. |
Feb 9 |
ejournals |
Widmer, A, C Lexer, & S Cozzolino. 2009. Evolution of reproductive isolation in plants. Heredity 102: 31-38.
Kephart, SR, & CB Heiser, Jr. 1980. Reproductive isolation in Asclepias: lock and key hypothesis reconsidered. Evolution 34: 738-746. |
Mar 2 |
ejournals |
McNeilly, T. 1967. Evolution in closely adjacent plant populations. III. Agrostis tenuis on a small copper mine. Heredity 23: 99-108
Savolainen, V, M Anstett, C Lexer, I Hutton, JJ Clarkson, MV Norup, MP Powell, D Springate, N Salamin, and WJ Baker. 2006. Sympatric speciation in palms on an oceanic island. Nature 441: 210-213.
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Mar 7 |
ejournals |
Goulet, BE, F Roda, & R Hopkins. 2017. Hybridization in plants: old ideas, new techniques. Plant Physiology 173: 65-78.
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Mar 16 |
ejournals |
Van de Peer, Y, E Mizrachi & K Marchal. 2017. The evolutionary significance of polyploidy. Nature Reviews Genetics 18: 411–424.
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Apr 1 |
ejournals |
Bradshaw, HD, Jr., SM Wilbert, KG Otto, & DW Schemske. 1995. Genetic mapping of floral traits associated with reproductive isolation in monkeyflowers (Mimulus). Nature 376: 762–765.
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Apr 11 |
ejournals |
Niklas, K, B Tiffney, B. & A Knoll. 1983. . Patterns in vascular land plant diversification. Nature 303: 614–616.
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Apr 15 |
ejournals |
Linkies, A, K Graeber, C Knight, & G Leubner-Metzger. 2010. The evolution of seeds. New Phytologist 186: 817-831.
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Apr 22 |
ejournals |
Friedman, WE, and SK Floyd. 2001. Perspective: The origin of flowering plants and their reproductive biology - A tale of two phylogenies. Evolution 55: 217-231. |
Apr 27 |
ejournals |
Hernández-Hernández, T & JJ Wiens. 2020. Why are there so many flowering plants? a multiscale analysis of plant diversification. American Naturalist 195: 948–963. |
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*expected date for lecture dicsussion of each reading
On reserve in the Reed College Library

Briggs & Walters (1997) Plant Variaiton and Evolution, 3rd ed.

Judd et al. (2016) Plant Systematics: a phylogenetic approach, 4th ed.