Schedule
We are meeting this semester (Fall 2023) on Mondays 3-4pm in Gant W416. Subscribe to systematics listserv to receive emails containing connection information (or write to someone listed in Contact Info).
August 28, 2023
September 4, 2023
No class, Labor Day
September 11, 2023
Postponed: Zach will dicuss the paper Jorna et al. 2021. Species boundaries in the messy middle—A genome-scale validation of species delimitation in a recently diverged lineage of coastal fog desert lichen fungi Ecology and Evolution 11(24):18615-18632.
Instead of the paper above, we plan to discuss species delimitation in general. Here is a possible background paper to read (sorry for the late notice):
de Queiroz, K. 2007. Species concepts and species delimitation. Systematic Biology 56(6):879-886. DOI:10.1080/10635150701701083
September 18, 2023
Nick Van Gilder has chosen the following paper on species delimitation in geckos for this week. This paper evaluates the sensitivity of one of the most prominent Bayesian species delimitation methods, BPP, to the guide tree and prior for theta, the parameter that determines mean time to coalescence within populations (larger values mean deeper average coalescence times, all other things equal).
AD Leaché, MK Fujita. 2010. Bayesian species delimitation in West African forest geckos (Hemidactylus fasciatus). Proc. R. Soc. B 277:3071-3077. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2010.0662
September 25, 2023
Zach will dicuss the paper Jorna et al. 2021. Species boundaries in the messy middle—A genome-scale validation of species delimitation in a recently diverged lineage of coastal fog desert lichen fungi Ecology and Evolution 11(24):18615-18632.
October 2, 2023
Analisa will discuss this paper: LG Fabreti and S Höhna. Nucleotide substitution model selection is not necessary for Bayesian inference of phylogeny with well-behaved priors Systematic Biology (corrected proof). DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syad041
October 9, 2023
Frank will lead discussion on this paper: M Tatani, T Yamasaki, H Tanaka, T Nakata, S Chiba. 2023. What makes the diverse flight of birds possible? Phylogenetic comparative analysis of avian alula morphology. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI:10.1093/biolinnean/blad085
October 16, 2023
October 23, 2023
October 30, 2023
November 6, 2023
November 13, 2023
November 20, 2023
No class, Thanksgiving