The Earley Lab

Reading Group

Schedule & Papers

Spring 2013

Monday, April 22, 2013 @ 4pm - Conradt (2012). Models in animal collective decision-making: information uncertainty and conflicting preferences. Interface Focus 2: 226-240.
Monday, April 29, 2013 @ 4pm - Murren (2012). The integrated phenotype. Integrative & Comparative Biology 52: 64-76.
Monday, May 6, 2013 @ 4pm - Wolf & Weissing (2010). An explanatory framework for adaptive personality differences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 365: 3959-3968.

Summer 2013

Monday, May 13, 2013 @ 4pm - Schwartz & Bronikowski (2013). Dissecting molecular stress networks: identifying nodes of divergence between life-history phenotypes. Molecular Ecology 22: 739-756.
Monday, May 20, 2013 Time: TBA - Brodin et al. (2013). Dilute concentrations of a psychiatric drug alter behavior of fish from natural populations. Science 339: 814-815.
Monday, May 27, 2013 Time: TBA - van den Heuvel et al. (2013). The predictive adaptive response: modeling the life-history evolution of the butterfly Bicyclus anynana in seasonal environments. American Naturalist 181: E28-E42.
Monday, June 3, 2013 Time: TBA - Fitzpatrick et al. (2008). What, if anything, is sympatric speciation? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1452-1459.
Monday, June 10, 2013 Time: TBA - Draghl & Whitlock (2012). Phenotypic plasticity facilitates mutational variance, genetic variance, and evolvability along the major axis of environmental variation. Evolution 66: 2891-2902.
Monday, June 17, 2013 Time: TBA - Weeks et al. (2006). When males and hermaphrodites coexist: a review of androdioecy in animals. Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Monday, June 24, 2013 Time: TBA - Roff & Fairbairn (2012). The evolution of trade-offs under directional and correlational selection. Evolution 66: 2461-2474.
Monday, July 1, 2013 Time: TBA - Fawcett et al. (2013). Exposing the behavioral gambit: the evolution of learning and decision rules. Behavioral Ecology � Advanced Access.
Monday, July 8, 2013 Time: TBA -Griffith et al. (2006). Melanin- versus carotenoid-based sexual signals: is the difference really so black and red? Animal Behaviour 71: 749-763.

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.

PAST READING GROUPS (Summer 2012)

Monday, May 7, 2012 @ 3pm - Wilson et al. (2010). Boldness and reproductive fitness correlates in the Eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. Ethology 116: 96-104.
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 We will review Kelly Weinersmith's manuscript entitled "Egeria densa, an invasive aquatic plant, affects largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) abundance and diet in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta". She will send the manuscript out to us at least one week in advance.
Monday, August 6, 2012 @ 3pm (Make sure to download the supplement!) - M'Gonigle et al. (2012). Sexual selection enables long-term coexistence despite ecological equivalence. Nature 484: 506-509. AND Download Supplement!

Monday, August 13, 2012 @ 3pm - Edenbrow & Croft (2012). Sequential hermaphroditism and personality in a clonal vertebrate: the mangrove killifish. Behavioural Processes 90: 229-237.
Monday, August 20, 2012 @ 3pm - Houle et al. (2011). Measurement and meaning in biology. Quarterly Review of Biology, 86: 3-34.

PAST READING GROUPS (Fall 2012)

Friday, August 31, 2012 @ 3PM - No reading group - PLEASE ATTEND MARK GARCIA'S THESIS DEFENSE!
Friday, September 7, 2012 @ 3PM - Filby et al. (2012). Environmental estrogen-induced alterations of male aggression and dominance hierarchies in fish: a mechanistic analysis. Environmental Science & Technology 46: 3472-3479.
Friday, September 14, 2012 @ 3PM - Lopez & Fuxjager (2012). Self-deception's adaptive value: effects of positive thinking and the winner effect. Consciousness and Cognition 21: 315-324.
Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 3PM - Wilson & Wilson (2007) Rethinking the theoretical foundation of sociobiology. Quarterly Review of Biology, 82, 327-348.
Friday, September 28, 2012 @ 3PM - Pinter-Wollman et al. (2012). Nest site and weather affect the personality of harvester ant colonies. Behavioral Ecology (advanced access).
Friday, October 5, 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.
Friday, October 12, 2012 @ 3PM - Soares et al. (2011). Tactile stimulation lowers stress in fish. Nature Communications 2: 534.
Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 3PM - Ferrari et al. (2011). Intrageneric variation in antipredator responses of coral reef fishes affected by ocean acidification: implications for climate change projections on marine communities. Global Change Biology 17: 2980-2986.
Friday, October 26, 2012 @ 3PM - Saaristo et al. (2009). Disruption of sexual selection in sand gobies (Pomatoschistus minutus) by 17alpha-ethinyl estradiol, and endocrine disruptor. Hormones and Behavior 55: 530-537.
Friday, November 2, 2012 @ 3PM - Pryke et al. (2012). Covariation in life-history traits: differential effects of diet on condition, hormones, behavior, and reproduction in genetic finch morphs. American Naturalist 179: 375-390.
Friday, November 9, 2012 @ 3PM - Gloag et al. (2012). Brood parasite eggs enhance egg survivorship in a multiply parasitized host. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B (advanced access).
Friday, November 16, 2012 @ 3PM - Avise & Tatarenkov (2012). Allard's argument versus Baker's contention for the adaptive significance of selfing in a hermaphroditic fish. PNAS 109: 18862-18867.
Friday, November 23, 2012 @ 3PM - No reading group - Thanksgiving holiday
Friday, November 30, 2012 @ 3PM - Habets et al. (2012). Therepeutic antimicrobial peptides may compromise natural immunity. Biology Letters 8: 416-418.
Friday, December 7, 2012 @ 3PM - McKellar & Hendry (2011). Environmental factors influencing adult sex ratio in Poecilia reticulata: laboratory experiments. Journal of Fish Biology 79: 937-953.
Friday, December 14, 2012 @ 3PM - Kidd et al. (2012). Repeated parallel evolution of parental care strategies within Xenotilapia, a genus of cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika. PLoS ONE 7: e31236.

Spring 2013

Friday, January 11, 2013 @3pm - Andriaenssens & Johnsson (2012). Natural selection, plasticity and the emergence of a behavioural syndrome in the wild. Ecology Letters, doi: 10.1111/ele.12011.
Monday, February 25, 2013 @ 4pm - Pepper & Rosenfeld (2012). The emerging medical ecology of the human gut microbiome. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 27: 381-384.
Monday, March 4, 2013 @ 4pm - Conner & Corcoran (2012). Sound strategies: the 65-million-year-old battle between bats and insects. Annual Review of Entomology 57: 21-39.
Monday, March 11, 2013 @ 4pm - Pfennig & Pfennig (2010). Character displacement and the origins of diversity. American Naturalist 176: S26-S44.
Monday, March 18th @4pm - Kotrschal et al. (2013). Artificial selection on relative brain size in the guppy reveals costs and benefits of evolving a larger brain. Current Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.11.058.
Monday, April 1, 2013 @ 4pm - Frankenhuis & Del Giudice (2011). When do adaptive developmental mechanisms yield maladaptive outcomes? Developmental Psychology 48: 628-642.
Monday, April 8, 2013 @ 4pm - Taylor & Patek (2010). Ritualized fighting and biological armor: the impact of mechanics of the mantis shrimp's telson. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 3496-3504.