Schedule
We are meeting this semester (Spring 2024) 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).
January 22, 2024
This first meeting, those who are registered will sign up for a paper and date to lead, and we’ll have an informal discussion of what everyone’s working on and why they chose the paper they did.
January 29, 2024
Frank’s choice:
S Tarasov. 2023. new phylogenetic Markov models for inapplicable morphological characters. Systematic Biology 72(3):681-693. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syad005
February 5, 2024
Chelsea: M Zimova, BC Weeks, DE Willard, ST Giery, V Jirinec, RC Burner, and BM Winger. 2023. Body size predicts the rate of contemporary morphological change in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 120(20):e2206971120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2206971120
February 12, 2024
Analisa: A Thompson, B Liebeskind, EJ Scully, M Landis. 2024. Deep learning and likelihood approaches for viral phylogeography converge on the same answers whether the inference model is right or wrong. Systematic Biology DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syad074
February 19, 2024
Mark: GE Budd and RP Mann. 2023. Two notorious nodes: a critical examination of relaxed molecular clock age estimates of the bilaterian animals and placental mammals. Systematic Biology Advance Access 10.1093/sysbio/syad057
February 26, 2024
Nick: LM Wootton, F Forest, and GA Verboom. 2023. Consilience across multiple, independent genomic data sets reveals species in a complex with limited phenotypic variation. Systematic Biology 72(4):753-766. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syad024
March 4, 2024
Frank: Y Kiat and JK O’Connor. 2024. Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers. PNAS 121(8):e2306639121 DOI:10.1073/pnas.2306639121
March 11, 2024
No class, spring break week
March 18, 2024
Chelsea: He et al. 2024. Challenges and opportunities in applying AI to evolutionary morphology. EcoRXiv https://doi.org/10.32942/X2S315
March 25, 2024
Analisa: J Truskowski, A Perrico, D. Broman₃ F. Ronquist, and A. Antonelli. 2023. Online tree expansion could help solve the problem of scalability in Bayesian phylogenetics. Systematic Biology 72:1199–1206. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syad045
April 1, 2024
Mark: C Zhang, F Ronquist, and T Stadler. 2023. Skyline fossilized birth-death model is robust to violations of sampling assumptions in total-evidence dating. Systematic Biology 72(6):1316-1336. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syad054
April 8, 2024
Today we will discuss systematics while watching projections of the eclipse!
April 15, 2024
Nick: FT Burbrink, BI Crother, CM Murray, BT Smith, S Ruane, EA Myers, RA Pyron. 2022. Empirical and philosophical problems with the subspecies rank. Ecology and Evolution 12:e9069. DOI:10.1002/ece3.9069