Reading Seminar

Date ： Every Thursday from 10:30.

Place ： Room 148, 1st floor of the Science Bldg. #2.

Contents : Reading and discussing papers in Paleobiology and Evolutionary Biology.

Dec. 18, 2014

・Watanabe et al., 2014

Nodal signalling determines biradial asymmetry in Hydra.

Nature 515, 112–115 (06 November 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13666

Dec. 11, 2014

・Churchill et al., in press

COPE'S RULE AND THE EVOLUTION OF BODY SIZE IN PINNIPEDIMORPHA (MAMMALIA: CARNIVORA).

Evolution DOI: 10.1111/evo.12560

・Lindgren et al., 2014

Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles.

Nature 506, 484–488 (27 February 2014) doi:10.1038/nature12899

Dec. 4, 2014

・Bi et al., 2014

Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals.

Nature 514, 579–584 (30 October 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13718

・Ibrahim et al., 2014

Semiaquatic adaptations in a giant predatory dinosaur.

Science 345, 1613 (2014)

Nov. 20, 2014

・Ross et al. 2013

Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2013 280:20123065

・Kasada et al., 2014.

Form of an evolutionary tradeoff affects eco-evolutionary dynamics in a predator–prey system.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014): 201406357.

Nov. 13, 2014

・Choo et al., 2014.

The largest Silurian vertebrate and its palaeoecological implications.

Scientific Reports 4: 5242

・Motani et al., 2014.

A basal ichthyosauriform with a short snout from the Lower Triassic of China.

Nature (2014) doi:10.1038/nature13866

Oct. 30, 2014 (Room 221, 2nd floor of the Science Bldg. #2.)

・Stuart et al., 2014.

Rapid evolution of a native species following invasion by a congener.

Science 24 October 2014: Vol. 346 no. 6208 pp. 463-466

Oct. 23, 2014

・Ramsay et al., 2014.

Eating with a saw for a jaw: Functional morphology of the jaws and tooth-whorl in Helicoprion davisii.

Journal of Morphology, 2014 Sep 2.

・Pascoal et al. 2014.

Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets.

Current Biology 24, 1369?1374, June 16, 2014

Oct. 16, 2014

・Romiguier et al., 2014.

Comparative population genomics in animals uncovers the determinants of genetic diversity.

Nature (2014) doi:10.1038/nature13685

・Joubert et al., 2014.

Temperature and Food Influence Shell Growth and Mantle Gene Expression of Shell Matrix Proteins in the Pearl Oyster Pinctada margaritifera.

PlOS ONE vol. 9 (8), e103944.

Oct. 9, 2014

・Zeuss et al., 2014

Global warming favours light-coloured insects in Europe

Nature Communications 5, Article number: 3874 doi:10.1038/ncomms4874

・Yoshizawa et al., 20114

Female Penis, Male Vagina, and Their Correlated Evolution in a Cave Insect

Current Biology Volume 24, Issue 9, 5 May 2014, Pages 1006–1010

Oct. 2, 2014

・Hori et al., 2014,

Klebsormidium flaccidum genome reveals primary factors for plant terrestrial adaptation.

Nature Communications 5, Article number: 3978

・Peiyun Cong, Xiaoya Ma, Xianguang Hou, Gregory D. Edgecombe & Nicholas J. Strausfeld, 2014

Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

Nature 513 538-542

Sep. 25, 2014

・Emily M. Standen, Trina Y. Du & Hans C. E. Larsson, 2014

Developmental plasticity and the origin of tetrapods.

Nature 513, 54–58.

・Miguel Alcaide, Elizabeth S. C. Scordato, Trevor D. Price & Darren E. Irwin, 2014

Genomic divergence in a ring species complex.

Nature 511, 83–85.

Sep. 18, 2014

・Moyer et al. 2014

Melanosomes or Microbes: Testing an Alternative Hypothesis for the Origin of Microbodies in Fossil Feathers.

Scientific Reports 4, Article number: 4233 doi:10.1038/srep04233

Sep. 11, 2014

・Bethany et al., 2014

Artificial selection for structural color on butterfly wings and comparison with natural evolution.

PNAS 2014 111 (33) 12109-12114; published ahead of print August 4, 2014,