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List of Readings

Week Class
Article Title & Information
Required/Suggested

October 11

Natural Nypothermic Preservation: The Mammalian Hibernator

By Kenneth Storey

Required
October 18

Taking Wing:  A new view of the origin of bird flight emerges.

Kate Wong

Required

Locomotor Modules and the Evolution of Avian Flight

Steven M Gatesy and Kenneth P. Dial

Suggested

October 21

Golden Eagles, Feral Pigs, and Insular Carnivores: How Exotic Species Turn Native Predators into Prey.

Gary W. Roemer, C. Josh Donlan, and Frank Courchamp

Required

Feral pigs facilitate hyperpredation by golden eagles and indirectly cause the decline of the island fox

Gary W. Roemer, Timothy J. Coonan, David K. Garcelon, Jordi Bascompte and Lyndal Laughrin

Suggested

The behavioural ecology of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis)

Gary W. Roemer, Deborah A. Smith, David K. Garcelon and Robert K. Wayne

Suggested

The Use of Microsatellite Variation to Infer Population Structure and Demographic History in a Natural Model System

David B. Goldstein, Gary W. Roemer, Deborah A. Smith, David E. Reich, Aviv Bergman and Robert K. Wayne

Suggested

November 1

Protandry in Pacific Salmon

Yolanda Morbey

Required

November 8

Latitudinal variation in Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera:  Scolytidae) development time and adult size

BJ Bentz, JA Logan, JC Vandygriff

Required

November 15

Maternal effects, paternal effects and sexual selection.

Allen Moore

Required

Evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects

Suggested

Do honest signalling models of offspring solicitation apply to insects?

Suggested

November 22

Managing Columbia Basin salmon: The facts the questions and the data.

Dan Goodman

Required

Managing Columbia Basin salmon under the Endangered Species Act:  Environmental engineering for a disfunctional ecosystem.

Suggested

Goodman suggested reading list

Suggested