Speciation
Spring 14
Noonan
Speciation
Instructor: Brice Noonan
Office: 502 Shoemaker
e-mail: bnoonan@olemiss.edu
Class time: Tues.-Thurs: 1:00 – 2:15
Office Hrs: T,X: 2:30 – 4:00
Text: Coyne & Orr; Selected Readings
Week 1:
Jan 20
Week 2:
Jan 27
Week 3:
Feb 3
Week 4:
Feb 10
Week 5:
Feb 17
Week 6:
Feb 24
Week 7:
Mar 3
Week 8:
Mar 10
Week 9:
Mar 17
Week 10:
Mar 24
Week 11:
Mar 31
Week 12:
Apr 7
Week 13:
Apr 14
Week 14:
Apr 21
Week 15:
Apr 28
Week 16:
Final
Chapter 1: Species
Chapter 2: Reproductive Isolation; Isolating Barriers
(Marie & Speciation, 2011)
Chapter 3: Allopatric Speciation
(Feder, Flaxman, Egan, Comeault, & Nosil, 2012; Nosil, Crespi, &
Sandoval, 2002)
Chapter 3: Parapatric Speciation
(Antonovics, 2006; Gavrilets, Li, & Vose, 2000)
Chapter 4: Sympatric Speciation: pp 127-141; 166-178.
(Dieckmann & Doebeli, 1999; Hadid et al., 2013; Savolainen et al.,
2006)
Chapter 5: Ecological Isolation
(Grant, 1949; Muñoz et al., 2013)
Chapter 6: Behavioral and Nonecological Isolation
(Jiggins, Naisbit, Coe, & Mallet, 2001; Bono et al. 2011)
SPRING BREAK
Chapter 7: Postzygotic Isolation
(Bomblies et al., 2007; Orr & Turelli, 2001)
Chapter 8: The genetics of Postzygotic Isolation
(Myburg, Vogl, Griffin, Sederoff, & Whetten, 2004; Presgraves, 2002)
Chapter 9: Polyploidy and Hybrid Speciation
(Marques, Draper, Riofrío, & Naranjo, 2014; Wood et al., 2009)
Chapter 10: Reinforcement
(Hoskin, Higgie, Mcdonald, & Moritz, 2005; Servedio & Carolina,
2003; Smadja & Butlin, 2006)
Chapter 11: Selection vs. Drift
Chapter 12: Speciation and Macroevolution
Chapter ?:
Grading:
Exams: 84 total pts.
FINAL EXAM
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Quizzes: in class & online (16 total)
Readings:
Antonovics, J. (2006). Evolution in closely adjacent plant populations X: long-term persistence of
prereproductive isolation at a mine boundary. Heredity, 97(1), 33–7. doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800835
Bomblies, K., Lempe, J., Epple, P., Warthmann, N., Lanz, C., Dangl, J. L., & Weigel, D. (2007).
Autoimmune response as a mechanism for a Dobzhansky-Muller-type incompatibility syndrome in
plants. PLoS Biology, 5(9), e236. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050236
Dieckmann, U., & Doebeli, M. (1999). On the origin of species by sympatric speciation. Nature,
400(6742), 354–7. doi:10.1038/22521
Feder, J. L., Flaxman, S. M., Egan, S., Comeault, A. a., & Nosil, P. (2012). Geographic Mode of Speciation
and Genomic Divergence. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 44(1),
130828114912001. doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135825
Gavrilets, S., Li, H., & Vose, M. D. (2000). Patterns of parapatric speciation. Evolution, 54(4), 1126–1134.
Grant, V. (1949). Pollination systems as isolating in angiosperms. Evolution, 3(1), 82–97.
Hadid, Y., Tzur, S., Pavlícek, T., Sumbera, R., Sklíba, J., Lövy, M., … Nevo, E. (2013). Possible incipient
sympatric ecological speciation in blind mole rats (Spalax). Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America, 110(7), 2587–92. doi:10.1073/pnas.1222588110
Hoskin, C. J., Higgie, M., Mcdonald, K. R., & Moritz, C. (2005). Reinforcement drives rapid allopatric
speciation. Nature, 437(7063), 1353–1356. doi:10.1038/nature04004
Jiggins, C. D., Naisbit, R. E., Coe, R. L., & Mallet, J. (2001). Reproductive isolation caused by colour
pattern mimicry. Nature, 411(6835), 302–305. Retrieved from <Go to ISI>://000168710000046
Marie, T., & Speciation, C. (2011). What do we need to know about speciation? Trends in Ecology &
Evolution, 27(1), 27–39. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2011.09.002
Marques, I., Draper, D., Riofrío, L., & Naranjo, C. (2014). Multiple hybridization events, polyploidy and
low postmating isolation entangle the evolution of neotropical species of Epidendrum (Orchidaceae).
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14(1), 20. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-20
Muñoz, M. M., Crawford, N. G., McGreevy, T. J., Messana, N. J., Tarvin, R. D., Revell, L. J., …
Schneider, C. J. (2013). Divergence in coloration and ecological speciation in the Anolis marmoratus
species complex. Molecular Ecology, 22(10), 2668–82. doi:10.1111/mec.12295
Myburg, A. a, Vogl, C., Griffin, a R., Sederoff, R. R., & Whetten, R. W. (2004). Genetics of postzygotic
isolation in Eucalyptus: whole-genome analysis of barriers to introgression in a wide interspecific
cross of Eucalyptus grandis and E. globulus. Genetics, 166(3), 1405–18. Retrieved from
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1470765&tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=a
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Nosil, P., Crespi, B. J., & Sandoval, C. P. (2002). Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of
reproductive isolation. Nature, 417(6887), 440–3. doi:10.1038/417440a
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Orr, H. a, & Turelli, M. (2001). The evolution of postzygotic isolation: accumulating Dobzhansky-Muller
incompatibilities. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 55(6), 1085–94. Retrieved
from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11475044
Presgraves, D. C. (2002). Patterns of postzygotic isolation in Lepidoptera. Evolution; International Journal
of Organic Evolution, 56(6), 1168–83. Retrieved from
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12144018
Savolainen, V., Anstett, M.-C., Lexer, C., Hutton, I., Clarkson, J. J., Norup, M. V, … Baker, W. J. (2006).
Sympatric speciation in palms on an oceanic island. Nature, 441(7090), 210–3.
doi:10.1038/nature04566
Servedio, R., & Carolina, N. (2003). The role of reinforcement in speciation: theory and data. Annual
Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 34, 339–364. doi:10.1146/132412
Smadja, C., & Butlin, R. (2006). Speciation: A new role for reinforcement. Heredity, 96(6), 422–3.
doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6800826
Wood, T. E., Takebayashi, N., Barker, M. S., Mayrose, I., Greenspoon, P. B., & Rieseberg, L. H. (2009).
The frequency of polyploid speciation in vascular plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America, 106(33), 13875–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.0811575106