RESERVE READING LIST
BIOLOGY 221 - INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY – SPRING 2010
READING #1.
Gould, S. J. 1999. Darwin's more stately mansion. Science 284: 208. PDF
Leshner, A. I. 2005. Redefining science. Science 309: 221. PDF
Optional:
Wise, D. U. 1998. Creationism's geological time scale. Amer. Sci. 86: 160-173. PDF
READING #2
Conway Morris, S. 1989. Burgess Shale faunas and the Cambrian Explosion. Science 246: 339-346. PDF
Knoll, A. H. and S. B. Carroll. 1999. Early animal evolution: emerging views from comparative biology
and geology. Science 284: 2129-2137. PDF
READING #3
Gould, S. J. and Eldredge, N. 1993. Punctuated equilibrium comes of age. Nature 366: 223-227. PDF
Conway Morris, S. 1993. The fossil record and the early evolution of the Metazoa. Nature 361: 219-225.
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READING #4
Li, C.-W., J.-Y. Chen, T.-E. Hua. 1998. Precambrian sponges with cellular structures. Science 279: 872882. PDF.
Aizenbert, J., J. C. Weaver, M. S. Thanawala, V. C. Sundar, D. E. Morse, and P. Fratzl. 2005. Skeleton of
Euplectella sp. Structural hierarchy from the nanoscale to the macroscale. Science 309: 275-278.
PDF.
READING #5
Brasier, M. and J. Antcliffe. 2004. Decoding the Ediacaran enigma. Science 305: 1115-1117. PDF
Glynn, P. W. and W. H. de Weerdt. 1991. Elimination of two reef-building hydrocorals following the 19821983 El Niño warming event. Science 253: 69-71. PDF
Cropp, B. 1985. Australia's invisible stinger. Oceans 1985 (1): 3-7. PDF
READING #6
Fabricius, K. E., Y. Benayahu & A. Genin. 1995. Herbivory in asymbiotic soft corals. Science 268: 90-92.
PDF.
Murata, M., K. Miyagawa-Kohshima, K. Nakanishi and Y. Naya. 1986. Characterization of compounds
that induce symbiosis between sea anemone and anemone fish. Science 234: 585-587. PDF
READING #7
Goreau, T. F., N. I. Goreau & T. J. Goreau. 1979. Corals and coral reefs. Sci. Amer. 241: 124-136. PDF
Kramarsky-Winter, E. M. Fine & Y. Loya. 1997. Coral polyp explusion. Nature 387: 137. PDF
Pool, R. 1995. Coral chemistry leads to human bone repair. Science 267: 1772. PDF
READING #8
Bengston, S. 1998. Animal embryos in deep time. Nature 391: 529-530. PDF
Xiao, S., Y. Zhang and A. H. Knoll. 1998. Three-dimensional preservation of algae and animal embryos in
a Neoproterozoic phosphorite. Nature 391: 553-558. PDF
Bengston, S. and Y. Zhao. 1997. Fossilized metazoan embryos from the earliest Cambrian. Science 277:
1645-1648. PDF
READING #9
Michiels, N. K. & L. J. Newman. 1998. Sex and violence in hermaphrodites. Nature 391: 647. PDF
Woolhouse, M. E. J., P. Taylor, D. Matanhire, S. K. Chandiwana. 1991. Acquired immunity and
epidemiology of Schistosoma haematobium Nature 351: 757-760. PDF
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READING #10
Wray, G. A. 1995. Punctuated evolution of embryos. Science 267: 1115-1116. PDF
Levitan, D. R. 1996. Effects of gamete traits on fertilization in the sea and the evolution of sexual
dimorphism. Nature 382: 153-155. PDF
READING # 11
Abele, L. G. and S. Gilchrist. 1977. Homosexual rape and sexual selection in acanthocephalan worms.
Science 197: 81-83. PDF
Conway Morris, S. 1995. A new phylum from the lobster’s lips. Nature 378: 661-662. PDF
Funch, P. and R. M. Kristensen. 1995. Cyciliophora is a new phylum with affinities to Entoprocta and
Ectoprocta. Nature 378: 711-714. PDF
READING # 12
Nielsen, C. 1998. Sequences lead to a tree of worms. Nature 3902: 25-26. PDF
Blaxter, M. L. et al. 1998. A molecular evolutionary framework for the Phylum Nematoda. Nature 392: 7175. PDF