Friday Lectures
Friday, October 4, 2019 3:45 p.m
Caspary Auditorium
Sean Carroll Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology and Genetics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Butterfly Spots and Rattlesnake Tales: The Evolution of Novelty
Recommended Readings:
Science News
Silver Spring, MD. The Serengeti Rules— Top-down ecology. April 15, 2019. Science on Screen
Empirical Articles
Loehlin, David W.; Ames, Jesse R.; Vaccaro, Kathy; et al. (2019). A major role for noncoding regulatory mutations in the evolution of enzyme activity. PNAS. 116 (25): 12383-12389
Dowell, Noah L.; Giorgianni, Matt W.; Griffin, Sam; et al. (2018). Extremely Divergent Haplotypes in Two Toxin Gene Complexes Encode Alternative Venom Types within Rattlesnake Species. CURRENT BIOLOGY. 28 (7): 1016-+
Dowell, Noah L.; Giorgianni, Matt W.; Kassner, Victoria A.; et al. (2016). The Deep Origin and Recent Loss of Venom Toxin Genes in Rattlesnakes. CURRENT BIOLOGY. 26 (18): 2434-2445
Brunetti, CR; Selegue, JE; Monteiro, A; et al. (2001). The generation and diversification of butterfly eyespot color patterns. CURRENT BIOLOGY. 11 (20): 1578-1585
Brakefield, PM; Gates, J; Keys, D; et al. (1996). Development, plasticity and evolution of butterfly eyespot patterns. NATURE. 384 (6606): 236-242
Review Papers
Carroll, Sean B. (2008). Evo-devo and an expanding evolutionary synthesis: A genetic theory of morphological evolution. CELL. 134 (1): 25-36
True, JR; Carroll, SB. (2002). Gene co-option in physiological and morphological evolution. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. 18: 53-80