Reading Assignments for 9/27-10/1

The search for a good article on natural invasion was a bust, so we're going to skip over that. The esteemed Dr. Richard V. Kesseli is scheduled to speak briefly to the class on 9/28 population genetics, following our discussion of lag-time curves, then it's on to some great non-plant genetics papers on Thursday:

9/28 (Tuesday)

• "Lag times in population explosions of invasive species: causes and implications." (1999) Chapter 7 in Invasive Species and Biodiversity Management, edited by Sandlund et al., Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. pp. 103-125 [handed out in class]
  
• "Hybridization as a stimulus for the evolution of invasiveness in plants?" by Ellstrand and Schierenbeck (2000) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(13): 7043-7050 [.pdf file]

9/30 (Thursday)

• "Reduced genetic variation and the success of an invasive species." by TsuTsui et al. (2000) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(11): 5948-5953. [.pdf file]
  
• "Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizard." by Kolbe et al. (2004) Nature. 431: 177-181. [.pdf file]