| Systematics Discussion Group at UC Berkeley |
The Systematics Discussion Group meets on Mondays in room 5053 of VLSB from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon.
Again this semester Anna Thompson has volunteered to handle the organizational responsibilities; for more information contact her at atbuster@socrates.berkeley.edu. Copies of the paper(s) for discussion at each week's meeting are posted in the Integrative Biology department office (3060 VLSB), the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (3101 VLSB), in Insect Biology and outside Marty Wojciechowski's office (1114 VLSB).
Schedule of meetings, fall semester 1999
The next meeting . . .
15 November - Nan Arens and Caroline Stromberg
*Topic: Developing phylogenetic classifications for fossil plants has been tricky because most of the time our record is one of isolated parts rather than whole plants. We would like to present a problem that we have been struggling with for some time and our proposed solution. We are hoping that the group can provide feedback and suggestions as we zoom in on writing this work up for publication.
September 20 - Group discussion of G. Vermeij's presentation topic at September 14th Biosystematists meeting @ UCB.
September 27 - Terry O'Brien
October 4 - Marty Wojciechowski
October 11 - John Wheeler
October 18 - Brent Mishler
25 October - Paul Bunje
8 November - Miriam Zelditch
For this week we will have the unusual and exciting opportunity to discuss some real-live-in-progress-research*, presented by Nan and Caroline, and what you have to say might end up in one of those acknowledgements like 'substantially improved by input from the Berkeley Systematics Discussion Group'. Don't miss this chance to make some history here.
September 13 - Lisa Gershwin
Knoll, A. H. and S. B. Carroll. 1999. Early animal evolution: emerging views from comparative biology and geology. Science 284: 2129 - 2137.
(copy of paper on-line @ http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/284/5423/2129)
Vermeij, G. J. 1999. Inequality and the directionality of history. American Naturalist 153: 243-253.
(on-line copy of paper @ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AN/journal/issues/v153n3/980309/980309.html)
Hovencamp, P. 1999. Unambiguous data or unambiguous results? Cladistics 15:99-102.
Leitner, T., and J. Albert. 1999. The molecular clock of HIV-1 unveiled through analysis of a known transmission history.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 10752-10757.
(on-line copy of paper @ http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/96/19/10752)
Avise, J. C., and G. C. Johns. 1999. Proposal for a standardized temporal scheme of biological classification for extant species.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 7358-7363.
An update on the Green Plant Phylogeny Research Coordination Group's efforts to reconstruct the phylogeny of green plants, the so-called "DEEP GREEN" project, and other thoughts/musings on large phylogenies. There will not be a reading; but for further information, visit the Deep Green website @ http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/DeepGreen/DeepGreen.html.
Knox, Eric B. 1998. The use of hierarchies as organizational models in systematics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 63: 1-49.
(on-line copy of paper @ http://www.idealibrary.com/cgi-bin/links/citation/0024-4066/63/1)
Miriam Zelditch, the author of the following paper, will lead the discussion.
Zelditch, M. L., W. L. Fink, and D. L. Swiderski. 1995. Morphometrics, homology, and phylogenetics: quantified characters as synapomorphies.
Systematic Biology 44: 179-189.