The Earley Lab

Reading Group

Schedule & Papers

Summer 2012

Monday, May 14, 2012 @ 3pm - Groeneweg et al. (2011). Rapid non-genomic effects of corticosteroids and their role in the central stress response. Journal of Endocrinology 209: 153-167.
Monday, May 21, 2012 @ 3pm - Wilson (2008). Why h2 does not always equal Va/Vp? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 647-650.
Monday, May 28, 2012 @ 3pm - True & Haag (2001). Developmental system drift and flexibility in evolutionary trajectories. Evolution & Development 3: 109-119.
Monday, June 4, 2012 @ 3pm - There will be NO reading group this week
Monday, June 11, 2012 @ 3pm - There will be NO reading group this week
Monday, June 18, 2012 @ 3pm - Ratcliff et al (2012). Experimental evolution of multicellularity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (January 17th Early Edition).
Monday, June 25, 2012 @ 3pm - Shier & Swaisgood (2011). Fitness costs of neighborhood disruption in translocations of a solitary mammal. Conservation Biology 26: 116-123.
Monday, July 2, 2012 @ 3pm - Pruitt & Reichert (2011). How within-group behavioural variation and task efficiency enhance fitness in a social group. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 278: 1209-1215.
Monday, July 9, 2012 @ 3pm Smith et al. (2010). The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals. Science 330: 1216-1219.
Monday, July 16, 2012 @ 3pm - There will be NO reading group this week
Monday, July 23, 2012 @ 3pm - There will be NO reading group this week
Monday, July 30, 2012 @ 3pm - Kerney et al. (2011) Intracellular invasion of green algae in a salamander host. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Early Edition.
Monday, August 6, 2012 @ 3pm - Van Dyken & Wade (2012). Detecting the molecular signature of social conflict: theory and a test with bacterial quorum sensing genes. American Naturalist 179: 436-450.
Monday, August 13, 2012 @ 3pm - Lopez & Fuxjager (2012). Self-deception's adaptive value: effects of positive thinking and the winner effect. Consciousness and Cognition 21: 315-324.

PAST READING GROUPS (Fall 2010)

Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 4pm - Shepard et al. (2009) Genetic, epigenetic and environmental impacts on sex differences in social behavior. Physiology & Behavior 97, 157-170.
Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 3pm (2 papers this week!) - Sih al. (2004) Behavioral syndromes: an ecological and evolutionary overview. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19, 373-378. AND Smith & Blumstein (2008) Fitness consequences of personality: a meta-analysis. Behavioral Ecology 19, 448-455.
Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 3pm - Sih et al. (2009) Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 63, 975-988.
Monday, September 13, 2010 @ 3pm - Agrawal & Whitlock (2010) Environmental duress and epistasis: how does stress affect the strength of selection on new mutations? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25: 450-458.
Monday, September 20, 2010 @ 3:30pm - Dunlap & Stephens (2009) Components of change in the evolution of learning and unlearned preference. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 276: 3201-3208.
Monday, September 27, 2010 @ 3:30pm Goodale et al. (2010) Interspecific information transfer influences animal community structure. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25: 354-361.
Monday, October 4, 2010 @ 3:30pm Hubbard et al. (2010) Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 231-239.
Monday, October 11, 2010 @ 3:30pm Oliva et al. (2010) Toward a mouse neuroethology in the laboratory environment. PLoS ONE 5: e11359.
Monday, October 18, 2010 @ 3:30pm McNamara & Dall (2010) Information is a fitness enhancing resource. Oikos 119: 231-236.
Monday, October 25, 2010 @ 3:30pm Sholtis & Noonan (2010). Gene regulation and the origins of human biological uniqueness. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 110-118.
Monday, November 1, 2010 @ 3:30pm Mackay et al. (2009) The genetics of quantitative traits: challenges and prospects. Nature Reviews Genetics 10: 565-577.
Monday, November 8, 2010 @ 3:30pm Gleason et al. (2009) Testosterone release and social context: when it occurs and why. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 30: 460-469.
Monday, November 15, 2010 @ 3:30pm Miner et al. (2005) Ecological consequences of phenotypic plasticity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 20: 685-692.
Monday, November 22, 2010 @ 3:30pm Foster (1999) The geography of behavior: an evolutionary perspective. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 14: 190-195.
Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 3:30pm Tops et al. (2009) Serotonin: modulator of a drive to withdraw. Brain & Cognition 71: 427-436.
Monday, December 6, 2010 @ 3:30pm Wagner & Danchin (2010) A taxonomy of biological information. Oikos 119: 203-209.
Monday, December 13, 2010 @ 3:30pm Edgell et al. (2009) Experimental evidence for the rapid evolution of behavioral canalization in natural populations. American Naturalist 174: 434-440.

PAST READING GROUPS (Summer 2010)

Friday, May 28, 2010 @ 10am - Wilson & Nussey (2009) What is individual quality? An evolutionary perspective. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25: 207-214.
Monday, May 31, 2010 @ 4pm - Bonier et al. (2009) Do baseline glucocorticoids predict fitness? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24: 634-642.
Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 4pm - Schurko et al. (2009) Signs of sex: what we know and how we know it. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24: 208-217.
Monday, June 14, 2010 @ 4pm - ten Cate & Rowe (2007) Biases in signal evolution: learning makes a difference. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 22: 380-387.
Monday, June 21, 2010 @ 4pm - Briffa et al. (2008) Comparing the strength of behavioural plasticity and consistency across situations: animal personalities in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 275: 1305-1311.
Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 4pm - Alonzo (2009) Social and coevolutionary feedbacks between mating and parental investment. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25: 99-108.
Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 4pm - McNamara & Houston (2010) Integrating function and mechanism. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24, 670-675.
Monday, July 12, 2010 @ 4pm - Danchin & Wagner (2010) Inclulsive heritability: combining genetic and non-genetic information to study animal behavior and culture. Oikos 119, 210-218.
Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 4pm - Sandi & Richter-Levin (2009) From high anxiety trait to depression: a neurocognitive hypothesis. Trends in Neurosciences 32, 312-320.
Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 4pm - Ouborg et al. (2010) Conservation genetics in transition to conservation genomics. Trends in Genetics 26, 177-187.
Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 4pm (2 papers this week!) - Smith et al. (2009) The need for molecular genetic perspectives in evolutionary education (and vice versa). Trends in Genetics 25, 427-429. AND Koonin (2009) The Origin at 150: is a new evolutionary synthesis in sight? Trends in Genetics 25, 473-475.
Monday, August 9, 2010 @ 4pm - Romero et al. (2009) The reactive scope model - a new model integrating homeostasis, allostasis, and stress. Hormones & Behavior 55, 375-389.
Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 4pm - Fitzpatrick et al. (2005) Candidate genes for behavioural ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 20, 96-104.

PAST READING GROUPS (Spring 2011)

Monday, January 17, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Loannidis(2005) Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Medicine 2: e124.
Monday, January 24, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Ghalambor et al. (2007) Adaptive versus non-adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments. Functional Ecology 21: 394-407.
Monday, January 31, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Hodgins-Davis & Townsend (2009) Evolving gene expression: from G to E to GxE. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24: 649-658.
Monday, February 7, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm (2 papers this week!) - Futuyma (1998) Wherefore and whither the naturalist? American Naturalist 151: 1-6 AND Greene (2005) Organisms in nature as a central focus for biology. Trends in Ecoogy & Evolution 20: 23-27.
Monday, February 14, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Fisher et al. (2006) Romantic love: a mammalian brain system for mate choice. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 361: 2173-2186.
Monday, February 21, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Calisi & Bentley (2009) Lab and field experiments: are they the same animal? Hormones & Behavior 56: 1-10.
Monday, February 28, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Mowles et al. (2010) Whole organism performance capacity predicts resource-holding potential in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus. Animal Behaviour 80: 277-282.
Monday, March 7, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Clutton-Brock & Sheldon (2010) Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25: 562-573.
Monday, March 14, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Arnold & Taborsky (2010) Social experience in early ontogeny has lasting effects on social skills in cooperatively breeding cichlids. Animal Behavior 79: 621-630.
Monday, March 21, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Pfennig et al. (2010) Phenotypic plasticity's impacts on diversification and speciation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25: 459-467.
Monday, March 28, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Fawcett & Johnstone (2010) Learning your own strength: winner and loser effects should change with age and experience. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 1686: 1427-1434.
Monday, April 4, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Wade (2007) The co-evolutionary genetics of ecological communities. Nature Reviews Genetics 8: 185-195.
Monday, April 11, 2011 - Reading group cancelled for Undergraduate Research Conference (Bryant Conference Center, 2-6pm - be there!)
Monday, April 18, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Careau et al. (2008) Energy metabolism and animal personality. Oikos 117: 641-653.
Monday, April 25, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Whitehead et al. (2011) Genomic mechanisms of evolved physiological plasticity in killifish distributed along an environmental salinity gradient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108: 6193-6198.
Monday, May 2, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Doolittle & Zhaxybayeva (2009) On the origin of prokaryotic species. Genome Research 19: 744-756.

PAST READING GROUPS (Summer 2011)

Monday, May 9, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Rutherford & Lindquist (1998). Hsp90 as a capacitor for morphological evolution. Nature 396: 336-342.
Monday, May 16, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Judge et al. (2010). A lover not a fighter: mating causes male crickets to lose fights. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 64: 1971-1979.
Monday, May 23, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Garland et al. (2005). Phylogenetic approaches in comparative physiology. Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 3015-3035.
Monday, May 30, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Baldauf et al. (2010). Male mate choice scales female ornament allometry in a cichlid fish. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 301.
Monday, June 6, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Sergio et al. (2011) Raptor nest decorations are a reliable threat against conspecifics. Science 331: 327-330.
Monday, June 13, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Mowles et al. (2011) Flexing the abdominals: do bigger muscles make better fighters? Biology Letters, published online.
Monday, June 20, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Schwander & Leimar (2011). Genes as leaders and followers in evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 143-151.
Monday, June 27, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Bailey et al. (2009). From genes to ecosystems: a synthesis of the effects of plant genetic factors across levels of organization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 364: 1607-1616.
July 4th week, 2011 - Day & Time: TBA (2 papers this week!) - Benfey et al. (2008). From genotype to phenotype: systems biology meets natural variation. Science, 320: 495-497. AND Whitham et al. (2006). A framework for community and ecosystem genetics: from genes to ecosystems. Nature Genetics 7: 510-523.
Monday, July 11, 2011: 3:30 pm - Laland, Atton & Webster (2011). From fish to fashion: experimental and theoretical insights into the evolution of culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 366:958-968.
Monday, July 18, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Rieucau & Giraldeau (2011). Exploring the costs and benefits of social information use: an appraisal of current experimental evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 366:949-957.
Monday, July 25, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - De Queiroz (2011). Branches in the lines of descent: Charles Darwin and the evolution of the species concept. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (in press).
Monday, August 1, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Irschick (2003). Measuring performance in nature: implications for studies of fitness within populations. Integrative & Comparative Biology 43: 396-407.
Monday, August 8, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - Futuyma (2010). Evolutionary constraint and ecological consequences. Evolution 64: 1865-1884.
Monday, August 15, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - De Queiroz (2011). Branches in the lines of descent: Charles Darwin and the evolution of the species concept. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (in press).
Monday, August 22, 2011 @ Time: 3:30 pm - McDonald et al. (2007). Relationships among sprint performance, voluntary swimming activity, and social dominance in juvenile rainbow trout. Physiological & Biochemical Zoology 80: 619-634.

PAST READING GROUPS (Fall 2011)

Monday, August 29, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Hurlbert (1984) Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecological Monographs 54: 187-211.
Monday, September 5, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Egge et al. (2011). Sequential analysis of aggressive interactions in the stalk-eyed fly Teleopsis dalmanni. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65: 369-379.
Monday, September 12, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Kloke et al. (2011). The winner and loser effect, serotonin transporter genotype, and the display of offensive aggression. Physiology & Behavior 103: 565-574.
Monday, September 19, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Elias et al. (2010). High resource valuation fuels "desperado" fighting tactics in female jumping spiders. Behavioral Ecology 21: 868-875.
Monday, September 26, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Romero et al. (2009). The reactive scope model - a new model integrating homeostasis, allostasis, and stress. Hormones & Behavior 55: 375-389.
Monday, October 3, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Calsbeek & Cox (2010). Experimentally assessing the relative importance of predation and competition as agents of selection. Nature 465: 613-616.
Monday, October 10, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Cox et al. (2010). Experimental evidence for physiological costs underlying the trade-off between reproduction and survival. Functional Ecology 24: 1262-1269.
Monday, October 17, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Quinn et al. (2011). Evolutionary transitions between mechanisms of sex determination in vertebrates. Biology Letters 7: 443-448.
Monday, October 24, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Pruitt & Reichert (2011). Nonconceptive sexual experience diminishes individuals' latency to mate and increases maternal investment. Animal Behaviour 81: 789-794.
Monday, November 7, 2011 @ 3pm (2 papers this week!) - Johnson & Fowler (2011) The evolution of overconfidence. Nature 477: 317-320 AND Van Veelen (2011) Selection for positive illusions. Nature 477: 282-283.
Monday, November 14, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Springer et al. (2011). Beyond the phenotypic gambit: molecular behavioural ecology and the evolution of genetic architecture. Molecular Ecology 20: 2240-2257.
Monday, November 21, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Biro & Stamps (2008). Are animal personality traits linked to life-history productivity? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23: 361-368.
Monday, November 28, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Hofmann (2010). The neuroendocrine action potential. Hormones & Behavior 58: 555-562.
Monday, December 5, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Alaux et al. (2009). Honey bee aggression supports a link between gene regulation and behavioral evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 15400-15405.
Monday, December 12, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Bell & Aubin-Horth (2010). What can whole genome expression data tell us about the ecology and evolution of personality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B 365: 4001-4012.
Monday, December 19, 2011 @ 3:00 pm - Nadeau & Jiggins (2010). A golden age for evolutionary genetics? Genomic studies of adaptation in natural populations. Trends in Genetics 26: 484-492.

PAST READING GROUPS (Spring 2012)

Monday, January 16, 2012 @ 3pm - Stapley et al. (2010). Adaptation genomics: the next generation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 25: 705-712.
Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 3pm - Galhardo et al. (2011). The role of predictability in the stress response of a cichlid fish. Physiology & Behavior 102: 367-372.
Monday, February 6, 2012 @ 3pm - Vale et al. (2011). Epidemiological, evolutionary, and coevolutionary implications of context-dependent parasitism. American Naturalist 177: 510-521.
Monday, February 13, 2012 @ 3pm - We will review Amanda's American Naturalist manuscript, which she will send out a week prior.
Monday, February 20, 2012 @ 3pm - Logue et al. (2011) Aggressiveness and size: a model and two tests. American Naturalist 177: 202-210.
Monday, February 27, 2012 @ 3pm - Prud'homme et al. (2011). Body plan innovation in treehoppers through the evolution of an extra wing-like appendage. Nature 473: 83-86. This is a .zip file with videos and supplemental materials!
Monday, March 5, 2012 @ 3pm - Santos & Cannatella (2011). Phenotypic integration emerges from aposematism and scale in poison frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108: 6175-6180.
Monday, March 12, 2012 @ 3pm - Lots of us will be in the field - reading group cancelled.
Monday, March 26, 2012 @ 3pm - We will review Mark's Anolis manuscript, which he will send out a week prior.
Monday, April 2, 2012 @ 3pm - We will review Kelly's manuscript entitled Average Metacercariae Volume Increases with Increasing Parasite Density in Euhaplorchis californiensis, a Behaviorally Manipulative Parasite Infecting Wild-Caught California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis), which she will send out about a week prior.
Monday, April 9, 2012 @ 3pm - Holland & Rice (1999). Experimental removal of sexual selection reverses intersexual antagonistic coevolution and removes a reproductive load. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 96: 5083-5088.
Monday, April 16, 2012 @ 3pm - Bassar et al. (2010). Local adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters ecosystem processes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107: 3616-3621.
Monday, April 23, 2012 @ 3pm - Nosil & Schluter (2011). The genes underlying the process of speciation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 160-167.
Monday, April 30, 2012 @ 3pm - We will review Adam's Trends in Ecology & Evolution manuscript, which he will send out a week prior.
Monday, May 7, 2012 @ 3pm - Wilson et al. (2010). Boldness and reproductive fitness correlates in the Eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. Ethology 116: 96-104.