EES Seminar and Discussion Course 3, Winter Semester 17/18
Instructors Niels Dingemanse,
Dirk Metzler
Time: Each Monday from 3:00 to 4:30
Room: D 00.013
Language: English
Guidelines: Guidelines.pdf
Long and short presentations given in the seminar
Bird song evolution (23/10/17, chair: A, long: T, short: H, Mn)
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Slabbekoorn, H., & den Boer-Visser, A. (2006). Cities change the songs of birds. Current biology, 16(23), 2326-2331.
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Byers, B. E. (2006). Extrapair paternity in chestnut-sided warblers is correlated with consistent vocal performance. Behavioral Ecology, 18(1), 130-136.
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Brumm, H. (2006). Signalling through acoustic windows: nightingales avoid interspecific competition by short-term adjustment of song timing. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 192(12), 1279-1285.
Deep metazoan phylogeny (30/10/17, chair: Su, long: H, short: Ml)
- Moroz, L. L., et al. (2014) The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems. Nature, 510(7503):109-14.
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Pisani, D., W. Pett, M. Dohrmann, R. Feuda, O. Rota-Stabelli, H.
Philippe, N. Lartillot and G. Wörheide (2015) Genomic data do not
support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 112(50):15402-7.
Eco tourism: not all good? (6/11/17, chair: Rb, long: C, short: A)
- Amo, L., López, P., & Martı, J. (2006). Nature-based tourism as a form of predation risk affects body condition and health state of Podarcis muralis lizards. Biological Conservation, 131(3), 402-409.
- French SS, Neuman-Lee LA, Terletzky PA, Kiriazis NM, Taylor EN, DeNardo DF (2017) Too much of a good thing? Human disturbance linked to ecotourism has a "dose-dependent" impact on innate immunity and oxidative stress in marine iguanas, Amblyrhynchus cristatus. Biological Conservation 210:37-47
Demography and selection inference (13/11/17, chair: Sm, long: Ml, short: Su)
Tree of life and its roots (20/11/17, chair: Ml, long: Sm, short: Rb)
- Gouy, R., D. Baurain and H. Philippe. Rooting the tree of life:
the phylogenetic jury is still out.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B
Biol Sci, 370(1678):20140329, 2015.
- Hug, L. A., B. J. Baker, K. Anantharaman, C. T. Brown, A. J.
Probst, C. J. Castelle, C. N. Butterfield, A. W. Hernsdorf, Y.
Amano, K. Ise, Y. Suzuki, N. Dudek, D. A. Relman, K. M. Finstad,
R. Amundson, B. C. Thomas and J. F. Banfield. A new view of the
tree of life.. Nat Microbiol, 1:16048, 2016.
Density-dependent selection (27/10/17, chair: H, long: Mn, short: D)
Feeding birds in winter and what it does (4/12/17, chair: T, long: E, short: Mt)
- Plummer, K.E., Bearhop, S., Leech, D.I., Chamberlain, D.E. & Blount, J.D. Winter food provisioning reduces future breeding performance in a wild bird. Sci. Rep. 3, 2002; DOI:10.1038/srep02002 (2013).
- Gillian N. Robb, Robbie A. McDonald, Dan E. Chamberlain, S. James Reynolds, Timothy J. E. Harrison and Stuart Bearhop (2008) Winter feeding of birds increases productivity in the subsequent breeding season Biol. Lett. 4, 220–223. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0622
Sexual selection (11/12/17, chair: Mt, long: Rk, short: C)
More sexual selection (18/12/17, chair: D, long: Sj, short: Sm)
- Lumley, A.J., Michalczyk, L., Kitson, J.J., Spurgin, L.G., Morrison, C.A., Godwin, J.L., Dickinson, M.E., Martin, O.Y., Emerson, B.C., Chapman, T. and Gage, M.J., 2015. Sexual selection protects against extinction. Nature, 522(7557), pp.470-473.
- Lüüold, S., Tomkins, J.L., Simmons, L.W. and Fitzpatrick, J.L., 2014. Female monopolization mediates the relationship between pre-and postcopulatory sexual traits. Nature communications, 5, p.3184.
Selection in primates (8/1/18, chair: Sj, long: D, long: Su)
- Cagan, A., C. Theunert, H. Laayouni, G. Santpere, M. Pybus, F.
Casals, K. Prufer, A. Navarro, T. Marques-Bonet, J. Bertranpetit
and A. M. Andres. Natural Selection in the Great Apes.. Mol Biol
Evol, 33(12):3268-3283, 2016.
- Enard, D., P. W. Messer and D. A. Petrov. Genome-wide signals of
positive selection in human evolution.. Genome Res, 24(6):885-95,
2014.
Evolution of personality (15/1/18, chair: C, Mn, long: Sm, short: E,T)
Evolution of body weight evolution (22/1/18, chair: E, long: Mt, short: Rk)
Genome scans for evidence of adaptation (29/1/18, chair: Rk, long: A, short: Rb)
- Zhong, L., Q. Yang, X. Yan, C. Yu, L. Su, X. Zhang and Y. Zhu.
Signatures of soft sweeps across the Dt1 locus underlying
determinate growth habit in soya bean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]..
Mol Ecol, 26(18):4686-4699, 2017.
- Eoche-Bosy, D., M. Gautier, M. Esquibet, F. Legeai, A.
Bretaudeau, O. Bouchez, S. Fournet, E. Grenier and J. Montarry.
Genome scans on experimentally evolved populations reveal
candidate regions for adaptation to plant resistance in the
potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida. Mol Ecol,
26(18):4700-4711, 2017
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