EES Seminar and Discussion Course 3, Winter Semester 12/13

Instructors Niels Dingemanse, Dirk Metzler

Time: Each Monday from 3:15 to 4:45
Room: C 00.013
Language: English
Guidelines: Guidelines.pdf

Presentations given in the seminar

Oct 29: Early evolution
Long presentation by Eleftherios: Vasas, V.; Fernando, C.; Santos, M.; Kauffman, S. & Szathmáry, E. (2012) Evolution before genes. Biol Direct 7, pp. 1ff; discussion 1 doi pmid
Short presentation by Andrea: Martin, W. F. (2011) Early evolution without a tree of life. Biol Direct 6, pp. 36ff doi pmid
Short presentation by Aleksandre: Bernhardt, H. S. & Tate, W. P. (2012) Primordial soup or vinaigrette: did the RNA world evolve at acidic pH? Biol Direct 7 pp. 4, doi pmid
Chair: Nedim, Sara


Nov 5: Social evolution and indirect genetic effects
Long presentation by Nedim: Wilson, A. J.; Gelin, U.; Perron, M.-C. & Réale, D. (2009) Indirect genetic effects and the evolution of aggression in a vertebrate system. Proc Biol Sci 276, pp. 533-541, doi pmid
Short presentation by Harriet: Nicolaus, M.; Tinbergen, J.; Bouwman, K.; Michler, S.; Ubels, R.; Both, C.; Kempenaers, B. & Dingemanse, N. (2013) Experimental evidence for adaptive personalities in a wild passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, to appear
Chair: Federico


Nov 12: Phylogenetics and evolutionary diversification
Long presentation by Melany: Fabian, D. K.; Kapun, M.; Nolte, V.; Kofler R.; Schmidt, P.S.; Schlötterer, C. & Flatt, T. (2012) Genome-wide patterns of latitudinal differentiation among populations of Drosophila melanogaster from North America. Mol. Ecol. 21, pp. 4748-4769, doi pmid
Short presentation by Adun: Puritz, J. B.; Addison, J. A. & Toonen, R. J. (2012) Next-generation phylogeography: a targeted approach for multilocus sequencing of non-model organisms. PLoS One 7, pp. e34241, doi pmid
Short presentation by Kasia: Roesti, M.; Hendry, A. P.; Salzburger, W. & Berner, D. (2012) Genome divergence during evolutionary diversification as revealed in replicate lake-stream stickleback population pairs. Mol Ecol 21, pp. 2852-2862, doi pmid
Chair: Juan


Nov 19: Kin selection vs. group selection
Long presentation by Juan: Gardner, A.; West, S. A. & Wild, G. (2011) The genetical theory of kin selection. J Evol Biol 24, pp. 1020-1043, doi pmid
Short presentation by Felicitas: Nowak, M. A.; Tarnita, C. E. & Wilson, E. O. (2010) The evolution of eusociality. Nature 466, pp. 1057-1062, doi pmid
Short presentation by Amanda: Lion, S.; Jansen, V. A. A. & Day, T. (2011) Evolution in structured populations: beyond the kin versus group debate. Trends Ecol Evol 26, pp. 193-201, doi pmid
Chair: Melany


Nov 26: Gender load and antagonism
Long presentation by Gökce: Sprenger, D.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Dochtermann, N. A.; Theobald, J. & Walker, S. P. W. (2012) Aggressive females become aggressive males in a sex-changing reef fish. Ecol Lett 15, pp. 986-992, doi pmid
Long presentation by Amanda: Mokkonen, M.; Kokko, H.; Koskela, E.; Lehtonen, J.; Mappes, T.; Martiskainen, H. & Mills, S. C. (2011) Negative frequency-dependent selection of sexually antagonistic alleles in Myodes glareolus. Science 334, pp. 972-974, doi pmid
Chair: Eliza


Dec 3: Promiscuity and inbreeding
Long presentation by Eliza: Forstmeier, W.; Martin, K.; Bolund, E.; Schielzeth, H. & Kempenaers, B. (2011) Female extrapair mating behavior can evolve via indirect selection on males. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108, pp. 10608-10613, doi pmid
Short presentation by Eleftherios: Michalczyk, L.; Millard, A. L.; Martin, O. Y.; Lumley, A. J.; Emerson, B. C.; Chapman, T. & Gage, M. J. G. (2011) Inbreeding promotes female promiscuity. Science 333, pp. 1739-1742, doi pmid
Short presentation by Federico: Patrick, S. C.; Chapman, J. R.; Dugdale, H. L.; Quinn, J. L. & Sheldon, B. C. (2012) Promiscuity, paternity and personality in the great tit. Proc Biol Sci 279, pp. 1724-1730, doi pmid
Chair: Harriet, Felicitas


Dec 10: What does FST mean?
Long presentation by Felicitas: Edelaar, P.; Burraco, P. & Gomez-Mestre, I. (2011) Comparisons between Q(ST) and F(ST)how wrong have we been? Mol Ecol 20, pp. 4830-4839, doi pmid
Short presentation by Eliza: Edelaar, P. & Björklund, M. (2011) If F(ST) does not measure neutral genetic differentiation, then comparing it with Q(ST) is misleading. Or is it? Mol Ecol 20, pp. 1805-1812, doi pmid
Short presentation by Florian: Sanchez-Guillén, R. A.; Hansson, B.; Wellenreuther, M.; Svensson, E. I. & Cordero-Rivera, A. (2011) The influence of stochastic and selective forces in the population divergence of female colour polymorphism in damselflies of the genus Ischnura.Heredity 107, pp. 513-522, doi pmid
Chair: Kasia


Dec 17: Ecology of variation and invasion
Long presentation by Florian: Fogarty, S.; Cote, J. & Sih, A. (2011) Social personality polymorphism and the spread of invasive species: a model. Am Nat 177, pp. 273-287, doi pmid
Long presentation by Adun: Pruitt, J. N.; Stachowicz, J. J. & Sih, A. (2012) Behavioral types of predator and prey jointly determine prey survival: potential implications for the maintenance of within-species behavioral variation. Am Nat 179, pp. 217-227, doi pmid
Chair: Gökce


Jan 7: Ecology of sleep and news from grandpa neanderthal.
Long presentation by Jennifer: Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Valcu, M.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Kuhn, S.; Kuemmeth, F.; Heidrich, W. & Kempenaers, B. (2012) Adaptive sleep loss in polygynous pectoral sandpipers. Science 337, pp. 1654-1658 doi pmid
Short presentation by Sara: Steinmeyer, C.; Schielzeth, H.; Mueller, J. & Kempenaers, B. (2010) Variation in sleep behaviour in free-living blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus: effects of sex, age and environment. Animal Behaviour 80, pp. 853-864
Short presentation by Nedim: Yang, M. A.; Malaspinas, A.-S.; Durand, E. Y. & Slatkin, M. (2012) Ancient structure in Africa unlikely to explain neanderthal and non-african genetic similarity. Mol Biol Evol 29, pp. 2987-2995 doi pmid
Chair: Florian


Jan 14: Experimental approaches to measure dispersal
Long presentation by Harriet: Legrand, D.; Guillaume, O.; Baguette, M.; Cote, J.; Trochet, A.; Calvez, O.; Zajitschek, S.; Zajitschek, F.; Lecomte, J.; Bénard, Q.; Galliard, J.-F. L. & Clobert, J. (2012) The Metatron: an experimental system to study dispersal and metaecosystems for terrestrial organisms. Nat Methods 9, pp. 828-833 doi pmid
Long presentation by Sara: Cote, J.; Fogarty, S.; Brodin, T.; Weinersmith, K. & Sih, A. (2011) Personality-dependent dispersal in the invasive mosquitofish: group composition matters. Proc Biol Sci 278, pp. 1670-1678, doi pmid
Chair: Eleftherios


Jan 21: Host-parasite interactions, evolution of immunity and our ancient relatives
Long presentation by Andrea: Strelkowa, N. & Lässig, M. (2012) Clonal interference in the evolution of influenza. Genetics 192, pp. 671-682, doi pmid
Short presentation by Gökce: Roth, O.; Keller, I.; Landis, S. H.; Salzburger, W. & Reusch, T. B. H. (2012) Hosts are ahead in a marine host-parasite coevolutionary arms race: innate immune system adaptation in pipefish syngnathus typhle against Vibrio phylotypes. Evolution 66, pp. 2528-2539, doi pmid
Short presentation by Melany: Eriksson, A. & Manica, A. (2012) Effect of ancient population structure on the degree of polymorphism shared between modern human populations and ancient hominins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109, pp. 13956-13960, doi pmid
Chair: Aleksandre, Jennifer


Jan 28: Frequency-dependent selection, personality evolution and parent-offspring conflict
Long presentation by Federico: Alvergne, A.; Jokela, M. & Lummaa, V. (2010) Personality and reproductive success in a high-fertility human population. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107, pp. 11745-11750, doi pmid
Short presentation by Jennifer: McNamara, J. M.; Trimmer, P. C.; Eriksson, A.; Marshall, J. A. R. & Houston, A. I. (2011) Environmental variability can select for optimism or pessimism. Ecol Lett 14, pp. 58-62, doi pmid
Short presentation by Juan: Hinde, C. A.; Johnstone, R. A. & Kilner, R. M. (2010) Parent-offspring conflict and coadaptation. Science 327, pp. 1373-1376, doi pmid
Chair: Adun, Andrea


Feb 4: Speciation
Long presentation by Aleksandre: Kautt, A. F.; Elmer, K. R. & Meyer, A. (2012) Genomic signatures of divergent selection and speciation patterns in a 'natural experiment', the young parallel radiations of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes. Mol Ecol 21, pp. 4770-4786, doi pmid
Long presentation by Kasia: Wachi, N.; Abe, Y.; Inomata, N.; Szmidt, A. E. & Tachida, H. (2012) Speciation history of three closely related oak gall wasps, Andricus mukaigawae, A. kashiwaphilus, and A. pseudoflos (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Mol Ecol 21, pp. 4681-4694, doi pmid
Chair: Amanda


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