Introduction
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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.
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When and Where
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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 4:00 PM at my lab (room 342 of the Life Sciences Building) and then head off to a place with snacks.
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Papers for Spring 2025
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Monday, February 3, 2025
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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
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Monday, February 10, 2025
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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
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Monday, February 17, 2025
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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
Monday, February 24, 2025
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Borstein, S.R., M. P. Hammer, B. C. O’Meara, and M. D. Mcgee. (2024). The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis. Nature Communications 15: 10325. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53141-4
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Monday, March 03, 2025
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​Stankowski, S., A. D. Cutter, I. Satokangas, et al. (2024). Toward the integration of speciation research. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society 3: 1-24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzae001
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Monday, March 17, 2025
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Yoder, J. B., G. Gomez, and C. J. Carlson. (2020). Zygomorphic flowers have fewer potential pollinator species. Biology Letters 16: 20200307. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0307
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Monday, March 24, 2025
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Lloret, F., E. G. Keeling, and A. Sala. (2011). Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low-growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests. Oikos 120: 1909-1920. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19372.x
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Monday, April 07, 2025​
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​​Charlesworth, D. (2021). When and how do sex-linked regions become sex chromosomes? Evolution 75: 569-581. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14196