Introduction
Welcome to Evol.Mon! This is meant to be an informal reading group hosted by my lab to accomplish the goal of staying current with the literature in evolutionary biology. I would like participants to nominate papers that are interesting. The only guideline is that it must fall broadly within the field of evolutionary biology. If you find papers of interest, please e-mail them to me (aeckert2@vcu.edu). There will be no formal structure to this group. People with interests outside of evolutionary biology are also welcome. The person who nominates the paper will make a single statement about why the paper was chosen. The rest of the time will be open for discussion.
When and Where
After a long hiatus stemming from the pandemic and VCU's defunding of graduate programs, we are finally back as of Fall 2024. Evol.Mon is held every Monday, unless noted otherwise, during the academic year. We meet around 3:00 PM at my lab (room 342 of the Life Sciences Building) and then head off to a place with snacks.
Papers for Spring 2025
Monday, February 3, 2025
Bolnick, D. I., A. K. Hund, P. Nosil, F. Peng, M. Ravinet, S. Stankowski, S. Subramanian, J. B. Wolf, and R. Yukilevich. (2023). A multivariate view of the speciation continuum. Evolution 77: 318-328. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpac004
Monday, February 10, 2025
Knapp, S. (2010). On ‘various contrivances’: pollination, phylogeny and flower form in the Solanaceae. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 365: 449–460. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0236
Monday, February 17, 2025
Brady, S. P., D. I. Bolnick, R. D. H. Barrett, et al. (2019). Understanding maladaptation by uniting ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Am Nat 194: 495-515. doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/705020