PLANT EVOLUTION
Course:
BIOL 415, Evolutionary Processes in Plants
Lecture:
Tutorial:
10-11 am, Tuesday & Thursday, Leonard S. Klick Building 462
2-4 pm, Thursday, MATH 102
Instructors:
Loren Rieseberg; Biodiversity 217; lriesebe@mail.ubc.ca
Greg Owens; Biodiversity 326; gregory.owens@alumni.ubc.ca
Office Hours: 11-12 am, Tuesday, Biodiversity 217 (Rieseberg)
Website:
http://www3.botany.ubc.ca/rieseberglab/plantevol/plantevo.html
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
TOPIC
Date
Lecturer
Readings
1. Introduction
Jan-5
Rieseberg
2. Genetic drift & population structure Jan-7
Discussion
Rieseberg
Dlugosch and Parker 2008
3. Gene flow
Jan-12
Owens
Ellstrand 2014
4. Phylogeography
Discussion
Jan-14
Owens
Bernard-Kubow et al. 2015
5. Local adaptation
Jan-19 (Quiz)
Rieseberg
Fournier-Level et al. 2011;
Savolainen 2011
6. Coevolution
Discussion
Jan-21
Rieseberg
Whitall & Hodges 2007
7. Mating system evolution
Jan-26
Owens
Kalisz et al. 2004
Rieseberg
Barrett 2002
Rieseberg
Rieseberg et al. 2006
Evolution of Populations
8. Sexual system evolution
Jan-28
Discussion (Introduce research proposal assignment)
Plant Speciation
9. The nature of plant species
Feb-2 (Quiz)
10. Reproductive isolation
Feb-4
Rieseberg
Discussion (Group discussion of ideas for research proposal)
Lowry et al. 2008
11. Chromosomal speciation
Fishman et al. 2013
Feb-9
Rieseberg
12. Polyploid speciation
Feb-11
Discussion (Bring/discuss proposal outlines)
Rieseberg
Wood et al. 2009
Reading week
13. Hybrid speciation
Feb-23 (Quiz) Rieseberg
Abbott et al. 2010
14. Speciation and macroevolution
Discussion
Feb-25
Rieseberg
de Vos et al. 2014
First Research Proposal Due
Feb-25
Mar-1
Rieseberg
Jump & Peñuelas 2006
16. Climate change and plant evolution Mar-3
Discussion
Rieseberg
Franks et al 2014
Plant Evolution and Us
15. Plant conservation genetics
17. Weed evolution
Mar-8 (Quiz) Rieseberg
Colautti & Barrett 2013
18. Plant domestication
Discussion
Mar-10
Owens
Purugannan & Fuller 2009
19. Crop diversity
Mar-15
Rieseberg
Tanksley & McCouch 1997
20. Population genomics of adaptation Mar-17
Discussion
Rieseberg
Siol et al. 2010
Plant Genome Evolution
21. Paleopolyploidy
Mar-22 (Quiz) Rieseberg
Jaillon et al. 2007
22. Nuclear genome evolution
Discussion
Mar-24
Rieseberg
Naito et al. 2009
23. Organelle genome evolution
Mar-29
Rieseberg
Bock et al. 2014
Project presentations - I
Discussion (Project Presentations II)
Mar-31 (Quiz)
Project presentations - III
Apr-5
Project presentations - IV
Apr-7
Second Research Proposal Due
Apr-8