Zoology & Evolutionary Biology Honours
2008-2009

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ARTHROPOD CORE COURSE:

Arthropod Phylogenetics

Powerpoint slides from the two lectures (full version)

The best book on Arthropod Relationships is a volume of the same name in the Systematics Association series edited by Fortey and Thomas (1998) but its a little out of date (obviously).

The papers to look at are

Jones, M., and Blaxter, M. (2005). Evolutionary biology: animal roots and shoots. Nature 434, 1076-1077.
Blaxter, M. (2001). Evolutionary biology. Sum of the arthropod parts. Nature 413, 121-122.
Aguinaldo, A.M.A., Turbeville, J.M., Linford, L.S., Rivera, M.C., Garey, J.R., Raff, R.A., and Lake, J.A. (1997). Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals. Nature 387, 489-493.

Adoutte (the new animal phylogeny)

Giribet et al (arthropod relationships)

Nardi et al (polyphyletic hexapods)
Cook et al (polyphyletic hexapods)
Carapelli et al (polyphyletyic hexapods)
Timmermans et al (monophyletic hexapods)

Heliconius butterflies: genetics of colour pattern mimicry

PDFs of Lecture 1 (huge), lecture 2 (not quite so huge)

general references on wing patterning

French_COGD_1997.pdf Vernon describes the state of the art in wing patterning genetics in 1997
Allen_JEZ_2008.pdf A good overview reference on Eyespot genetics
Parchem_CTED_2006.pdf A review of the genetics of wing patterning in Heliconius and Drosophila

COLOUR PATTERN GENETIC MAPPING

Sheppard_PhilTrans_1985.pdf The core paper describing the morphs of Heliconius and the genetics of their wing patterning
Jiggins_Genetics_2005.pdf The building of the H. melpomene genetic linkage map
Kapan_Genetics_2006.pdf The building of the genetic linkage map for H. erato
Naisbit_EvoDev_2003.pdf Crosses between H. cydno and H. melpomene
Joron_Heredity_2006.pdf Comparative mapping and the candidate gene approach in Heliconius
Papanicolau_MolEcol_2005.pdf Deriving markers to use for cross-species genetic mapping in Heliconius

Making pigments in Heliconius

Reed_EvoDevo_2005.pdf making pigments in Heliconius
Reed_PRSLB_2008.pdf making pigments in Heliconius

Cloning the colour pattern locus genes

Joron_PLoS_2006.pdf Mathieu Joron and colleagues develop linkage maps for three species and isolate genomic DNA that is the start of the walk to the colour pattern locus
Papa_BMCGenomics_2008.pdf The walk to the colour pattern locus Cr in H. erato
Baxter_Genetics_2008.pdf Mapping of B and D and isolation of BAC clones corresponding to these regions

interesting references on Heliconius hybrid species and Heliconius speciation

Jiggins_Nature_2001.pdf Chris Jiggins describes the biology of reproductive isolation by wing pattern recognition
Salazar_BMCEvBio_2008.pdf Camilio salazar and colleagues describing the population genetics of H. heurippa, a putative hybrid species
Kronforst_PRSB_2007.pdf Kronforst and colleagues describe the population genetics of H. pachinus, another putative hybrid species: the pattern is different from H. heurippa
Beltran_MBE_2002.pdf Margarita Beltran describes the complex patterns of species relationships in closely related Heliconius butterflies

 

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EVOLUTION CORE COURSE

Molecular Methods for Phylogenetics

Lecture 1 and 2: Molecular methods in phylogenetics

PDF from day 1

PDF from day 2

PDF of the Cnidarian lateral gene transfer discussion

PDFs of the Cnidarian paper and Supplementary Information

For those who did not do EEG3 last year, or who did and have but a hazy recollection of what Andy Leigh-Brown taught you re molecular and other phylogenetics, I have copied the relevant 2 lectures from his course here: Lecture 1 Lecture 2 (both PDFs)

See also the glossary of phylogenetic jargon.

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Additional Information

Glossary of phylogenetics terms

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