EEB Reading List for the
First Exam—2005
Behavior Section
Articles:
Cahan SH. 2001. Cooperation
and conflict in ant foundress associations: insights from geographical
variation. Animal Behavior 61:819-825.
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Markl H. 1985. Manipulation, modulation,
information, cognition: some of the riddles of communication.
Fortschr. Zool. 31:163-194.Perry G, Pianka ER. 1997. Animal
foraging: past, present and future. TREE 12:360-364.
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Background reading:
Clark AS, Henderson
LP. 2003. Behavioral and
physiological responses to anabolic-androgenic steroids. Neurosci.
Biobehav. Rev. 27:413-436.
Zupanc GKH, Lamprecht J. 2000. Towards
a cellular understanding of motivation: Structural reorganization
and biochemical switching as key mechanisms of behavioral plasticity.
Ethology 106:467-477.
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Books:
Krebs, JR, and NB Davies, Eds.
1997.Behavioural
Ecology, An Evolutionary Approach, 4th Ed. Blackwell Science,
Inc.
Goodenough, J, B McGuire, and RA Wallace, Eds. 2000. Perspectives
on Animal Behavior, 2nd Ed. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,
New York.
Articles:
Rebecca L, Lewison RL, Crowder LB, Read AJ, Freeman
SA. 2004. Understanding impacts of fisheries bycatch
on marine megafauna. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 598-604.
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Silvertown J. 2004. Plant coexistence and the
niche. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19:605-611.
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Books: read a general ecology text such as:Riklefs, R, and GL Miller. 1999. Ecology,
4th ed. W. H. Freeman & Co.
Begon M, Harper JL, Townsend CR. 1996. Ecology:
Individuals, Populations and Communities. Blackwell.
Articles:
McPeek MA. 2000. Predisposed to adapt? Clade-level
differences in characters affecting swimming performance in damselflies.
Evolution 54:2072-2080.
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Wake DB. 1997. Incipient species formation
in salamanders of the Ensatina complex. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 94:7761-7767.
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(Note: consulting a map of California will greatly facilitate
comprehension of this paper).
Book:
Futuyma DJ. 1998. Evolutionary Biology, 3rd
edition. Sinauer.
Systematics Section
Articles:
Espinoza RE, Wiens JJ, Tracy RT. 2004. Recurrent
evolution of herbivory in small, cold-climate lizards: Breaking
the ecophysiological rules of reptilian herbivory. PNAS 101:16819-16824.
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Springer MS, Teeling EC, Madsen O, Stanhope MJ, de Jong
WW. 2001. Integrated fossil and molecular data reconstruct
bat echolocation. PNAS 98: 6241-6246.
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Background reading: Huelsenbeck J, Ronquist F, Nielson R, Bollback J. 2001. Bayesian
inference of phylogeny and its impact on evolutionary biology.
Science 294:2310-2314
Books:Page RDM, Holmes EC. 1998. Molecular Evolution:
A Phylogenetic Approach. Blackwell Science Limited.Hillis, Moritz, Mable. 1996. Molecular Systematics.
Chapter 11 only. Sinauer.
Seagel-Causey, Brooks, and Funk. 1991. The
Compleat Cladist. Chapter 1 only. Wiley. PDF
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