Lent Reading List - Option 5: G5 Palaeobotany
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Journal References
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Lecture One
David Norman
The problem of vertebrate origins
A. General backqround textbook
- *Benton, M.J. (2004) Vertebrate Palaeontology. Blackwells. (General overview of the whole course)
B. Useful textbooks (next few lectures)
- Janvier, P. (1996) Early vertebrates. Oxford University Press. (Detailed perspective on the whole thing)
- Gee, H. (1996) Before the backbone. Chapman and Hall. (Lots of background, and rather too much about 'calcichordates' [he was obviously a convert to the idea] but you get plenty of general discussion about the controversy)
- Ruta, M. (1999). A brief review of the stylophoran debate. Evolution and Development 1: 123-135. (Putting 'calcichordates' to the sword)
- Dominguez, P., Jacobson, A.G. & Jefferies, R.P.S. (2002) Paired gill slits in a fossil with a calcite skeleton. Nature 417: 841-844, (a sort of ... "I told you 50! ")
- Shu, D-G. et al (2003). Head and backbone of the Early Cambrian vertebrate Haikouichthys. Nature 421: 526-529. (Cambrian chordate discoveries)
- Garcia-Fernandez, J. & Holland, P.W.H. (1994) Archetypal organisation of the amphioxus Hox gene cluster. Nature 370: 563-566 (see News and Views in the same issue for a far more digestible version of what this is about)
- *Cameron,, C.B., Garey, J.R. & Swalla, B.J. (2000) Evolution of. the chordate body plan: new insights from phylogenetic analysis of deuterostome phyla. PNAS 97: 4469-4474.
- Bromham, L.D. & Degnan, B.M. (1999) Hemichordates and deuterostome evolution: robust molecular phylogenetic support for a hemichordate + echinoderm clade. Evolution and Development 1: 166-171.
Lecture Three
N J Butterfield
Horsetails, Ferns, and the Evolution of Leaves
- *Beerling, D. J. 2005. Leaf evolution: gases, genes and geochemistry. Annals of Botany 96:345–352. doi:10.1093/aob/mci186
- *Beerling, D. J., and Berner, R. A. 2005. Feedbacks and the coevolution of plants and atmospheric CO2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102:1302–1305. doi:10.1073/pnas.0408724102
- Beerling, D. J., Osborne, C. P., and Chaloner, W. G. 2001. Evolution of leaf-form in land plants linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the late Palaeozoic era. Nature 410:352–354. doi:10.1038/35066546
- Boyce, C. K., and Knoll, A. H. 2002. Evolution of developmental potential and the multiple independent origins of leaves in Paleozoic vascular plants. Paleobiology 28:70–100. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0070:EODPAT>2.0.CO;2
- Floyd, S. K., and Bowman, J. L. 2006. Distinct developmental mechanisms reflect the independent origins of leaves in vascular plants. Current Biology 16:1911–1917.
- Hao S., Beck, C. B., and Wang D. (2003) Structure of the earliest leaves: adaptations to high concentrations of atmospheric CO2. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164:71-75. doi:10.1086/344557
- Osborne, C. P, Beerling, D. J., Lomax, B. H., and Chaloner, W. G. (2004) Biophysical constraints on the origin of leaves inferred from the fossil record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101:10360-10362. doi:10.1073/pnas.0402787101
- *Pryer, K. M., Schneider, H., Smith, A. R., Cranfill, Wolf, P. G., Hunt, J. S., and Sipes, S. D. 2001. Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants. Nature 409:618–622. doi:10.1038/35054555
- Pryer, K. M., Schuettpelz, E., Wolf, P. G., Schneider, H., Smith, A. R., and Cranfill, R. (2004). Phylogeny and evolution of ferns (Monilophytes) with a focus on the early leptosporangiate divergences. American Journal of Botany 91:1582–1598.
- Stein, W. E., Mannolini, F., VanAller Hernick, L., Landing, E., and Berry, C. M. 2007. Giant cladoxylopsid trees resolve the enigma of the Earth’s earliest forest stumps at Gilboa. Nature 446:904–907. (also N&V, Nature 446:861–862).doi:10.1038/nature05705
Lecture Four
N J Butterfield
Evolution of Wood and Seeds: Progymnosperms and Pteridosperms
- *Algeo, T. J., and Scheckler, S. E. 1998. Terrestrial-marine teleconnections in the Devonian: links between the evolution of land plants, weathering processes, and marine anoxic events. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 353:113–130.
- Doyle, J. A. 1998. Phylogeny of vascular plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29:567–599.
Lecture Six
N J Butterfield
Evolution of the Angiosperms
- *Bateman, R. M., Hilton, J., and Rudall, P. J. 2006. Morphological and molecular phylogenetic context of the angiosperms: contrasting the ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches used to infer the likely characteristics of the first flowers. Journal of Experimental Botany 57:3471–3503
- Donoghue, M. J., and Doyle, J. A. 2000. Seed plant phylogeny: demise of the anthophyte hypothesis? Current Biology 10:R106–R109
- Feild, T. S., Arens, N. C., Doyle, J. A., Dawson, T. E., and Donoghue, M. J. 2004. Dark and disturbed: a new image of early angiosperm ecology. Paleobiology 30:82–107
- Friis, E. M., Raunsgaard Pedersen, K., and Crane, P. R. 2006. Cretaceous angiosperm flowers: innovation and evolution in plant reproduction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 232:251– 293
- *Frohlich, M. W., and Chase, M. W. 2007. After a dozen years of progress the origin of angiosperms is still a great mystery. Nature 450:1184–1189
- Moore, M. J., Bell, C. D., Soltis, P. S., and Soltis, D. E. 2007. Using plastid genome-scale data to resolve enigmatic relationships among basal angiosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104:19363–19368
- *Sun, G. Ji, Q., Dilcher, D. L., Zheng, S., Nixon, K. C., and Wang, X. 2002. Archaefructaceae, a new basal angiosperm family. Science 296:899–904
- *Rothwell, G. W., and Nixon, K. C. 2006. How does the inclusion of fossil data change our conclusions about the phylogenetic history of euphyllophytes? International Journal of Plant Sciences 167:737–749
- Taylor, D. W., Li, H., Dahl, J., Fago, F. J., Zinniker, D., and Moldowan, J. M. 2006. Biogeochemical evidence for the presence of the angiosperm molecular fossil oleanane in Paleozoic and Mesozoic non-angiospermous fossils. Paleobiology 32:179–190
Lecture Seven
N J Butterfield
Oxygen, Fire and Grass…
- Berner, R. A. 2003. The long term carbon cycle, fossil fuels and atmospheric composition. Nature 426:323–326.
- Bond, W. J., Woodward, F. I., and Midgley, G. F. 2005. The global distribution of ecosystems in a world without fire. New Phytologist 165:525–538
- Christin, P.-A., Besnard, G., Samaritani, E., Duvall, M. R., Hodkinson, T. R., Savolainen, V., and Salamin, N. 2008. Oligocene CO2 decline promoted C4 photosynthesis in grasses. Current Biology 18:37–43
- Janis, C. M., Damuth, J., and Theodor, J. M. 2000. Miocene ungulates and terrestrial primary productivity: Where have all the browsers gone? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 97:7899–7904
- Keeley, J. E. and Rundel, P. W. 2005. Fire and the Miocene expansion of C4 grasslands. Ecology Letters 8:683–690
- *Osborne, C. P. and Beerling, D. J. 2006. Nature’s green revolution: the remarkable evolutionary rise of C4 plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 361:173–194
- Pagani, M., Zachos, J. C., Freeman, K. H., Tipple, B., Bohaty, S. 2005. Marked decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the Paleogene. Science 309:600–603
- Piperno, D. R., and Sues, H.-D. 2005. Dinosaurs dined on grass. Science 310:1126–1128
- Prasad, V., Strömberg, C. A. E., Alimohammadian, H., and Sahni, A. Dinosaur coprolites and the early evolution of grasses and grazers. Science 310:1177–1180
- Retallack, G. J. 2001. Cenozoic expansion of grasslands and climatic cooling. Journal of Geology 109:407–426
- Scott, A. C., and Glasspool, I. J. 2006. The diversification of Paleozoic fire systems and fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen concentration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 10861–10865
- Strömberg, C. A. E. 2005. Decoupled taxonomic radiation and ecologic expansion of open-habitat grasses in the Cenozoic of North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102:11980–11984
Lecture Eight
N J Butterfield
The Big Picture
- *Brundrett, M. C. 2002. Coevolution of roots and mycorrhizas of land plants. New Phytologist 154:275–304.
- Cook, J. M., and Rasplus, J.-Y. 2003. Mutualists with attitude: coevolving fig wasps and figs. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:241–248.
- *Crane, P. R., Herendeen, P., and Friis, E. M. 2004. Fossils and plant phylogeny. American Journal of Botany 91:1683–1699.
- *Donoghue, M. J. 2005. Key innovations, convergence and success: macroevolutionary lessons from plant phylogeny. Paleobiology 31:77–93.
- Hu, S., Dilcher, D. L., Jarzen, D. M., and Taylor, D. W. 2008. Early steps of angiosperm–pollinator coevolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105:240–245.
- Labandeira, C. C. 1998. How old is the flower and the fly? Science 280:57–59. DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5360.57
- Labandeira et al. 1994. Ninety-seven million years of angiosperm-insect association: paleobiological insights into the meaning of coevolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 91:12278–12282.
- Landeweert, R., Hoffland, E., Finlay, R. D., Kuyper, T. W., and van Breemen, N. 2001. Linking plants to rocks: ectomycorrhizal fungi mobilize nutrients from minerals. TREE 16:248–254.
- Looy, C. V., Twitchett, R. J., Dilcher, D. L.,Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert, J. H. A., and Visscher, H. 2001. Life in the end-Permian dead zone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98:7879–7883.
- *McElwain, J. C., and Punyasena, S. W. 2007. Mass extinction events and the plant fossil record. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:548–557.
- Naeem, S. 2008. Green with Complexity. Science 319:913–914.
- Rees, P. M. 2002. Land-plant diversity and the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology 30:827–30.
- Retallack, G. J., Veevers, J. J., and Morant, R. 1996. Global coal gap between Permian–Triassic extinction and Middle Triassic recovery of peat-forming plants. GSA Bulletin 108:195–207.
- Schneider, H. et al. 2004. Ferns diversified in the shadow of angiosperms. Nature 428:553–557.
- Taylor et al. 2004. Fungi from the Rhynie chert: a view from the dark side. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 94:457–473.
- Wilf, P., and Johnson, K. R. 2004. Land plant extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: a quantitative analysis of the North Dakota megafloral record. Paleobiology 30:347–368.
LectureNine
A Goswami
Intro to Quantitative Palaeobiology
- **a) Macroevolution in the 21st Century. David Jablonski, Michael J. Benton, Robert A. Gastaldo, Charles R. Marshall, and J. John Sepkoski, Jr.
- **D. Jablonski, Body-size evolution in Cretaceous molluscs and the status of Cope's Rule, Nature 385 (1997), pp. 250–252
- **Alroy, J. , Cope's Rule and the Dynamics of Body Mass Evolution in North American Fossil Mammals, 1998, Science, 280, 731-734
- **J.G. Kingsolver and D.W. Pfennig, Individual-level selection as a cause of Cope's Rule of phyletic size increase, Evolution 58 (2004), pp. 1608–1612.
- **McShea, D.W. 1994. Mechanisms of large-scale evolutionary trends. Evolution 48:1747-1763.
- Additional Excellent Macroevolution Papers and Volumes:
- Deep Time: Paleobiology's Perspective. Douglas H. Erwin and Scott L. Wing, eds. vi + 373 pp. The Paleontological Society (printed by Allen Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press), 2000
- Vrba, E.S. and Eldredge, N. (Editors) 2005. Macroevolution: Diversity and Disparity. Dedicated issue of Paleobiology in honor of Stephen Jay Gould, Paleobiology 31(2).
- Budd, Graham, 2002. Reclaiming evolution for the fossils. Palaeontologia Electronica, vol. 5, issue 1, editorial 2: 3pp., http://palaeo-electronica.org.
- More papers on Cope’s Rule and other trends:
- Stanley, S. M. An Explanation for Cope's Rule. Evolution, Vol. 27, No. 1, 1-26. 27 March, 1973
- B. Van Valkenburgh, X. Wang, and J. Damuth, Cope's Rule, Hypercarnivory, and Extinction in North American Canids, (2004) Science 306, 101-104
- Jablonski, D. 1996. Body size and macroevolution. Pp. 256–289 in D. Jablonski, D. H. Erwin, and J. H. Lipps, eds. Evolutionary paleobiology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
- John Alroy, Understanding the dynamics of trends within evolving lineages Paleobiology 2000 26: 319-329
- McShea, D.W. 1998a. Possible largest-scale trends in organismal evolution: eight live hypotheses. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29:293-318.
- Ashton, KG; Tracy, MC; de Queiroz, Is Bergmann's Rule Valid for Mammals? American Naturalist . Vol. 156, no. 4, pp. 390-415. Oct 2000.
Lecture Ten
A Goswami
Sytematics
- **Forey, P.L. 2005-6. Cladistics for Palaeontologists. Palaeontological Association newsletter
- **Reconstructing Phylogeny with and without Temporal Data. David L. Fox, Daniel C. Fisher, and Lindsey R. Leighton (11 June 1999) Science 284 (5421), 1816.
- ** Donoghue, M. J., J. A. Doyle, J. Gauthier, A. Kluge and T. Rowe. 1989. The importance of fossils in phylogeny reconstruction. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 20: 431-460.
Additional papers, including several classic papers on cladistics
- Forey, P. L., C. J. Humphries, I. L. Kitching, R. W. Scotland, D. J. Siebert, and D. M. Williams. 1992. Cladistics. A practical course in systematics. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
- Cracraft, J. 1981. Pattern and process in paleobiology: The role of cladistic analysis in systematic paleontology. Paleobiology 7:456-468. Gauthier, J., A. Kluge and T. Rowe. 1988. Amniote phylogeny and the importance of fossils. Cladistics 4: 105-209.
- Foote, M. 1996. On the probability of ancestors in the fossil record. Paleobiology 22:141-151.
- Nelson, G. J. 1972. Comments on Hennig's "phylogenetic systematics" and its influence on Ichthyology. Systematic Zoology 21: 364-374.
- Nelson, G. J. 1978. Ontogeny, phylogeny, paleontology, and the biogenetic law. Systematic Zoology 27: 324-345.
- Gauthier, J., A. Kluge and T. Rowe. 1988. Amniote phylogeny and the importance of fossils. Cladistics 4: 105-209.
- Foote, M. 1996. On the probability of ancestors in the fossil record. Paleobiology 22:141-151.
- Natural History Magazine, June 1995, pp.33-35, including illustrations: "Why Cladistics?" by Eugene S. Gaffney, Lowell Dingus, and Miranda K. Smith.
- Nelson, G. J. 1972. Phylogenetic relationship and classification. Systematic Zoology 21: 227-231.
- Nelson, G. J. 1972. Comments on Hennig's "phylogenetic systematics" and its influence on Ichthyology. Systematic Zoology 21: 364-374.
- Nelson, G. J. 1978. Ontogeny, phylogeny, paleontology, and the biogenetic law. Systematic Zoology 27: 324-345.
- Nelson, G. J. 1985. Outgroups and ontogeny. Cladistics 1: 29-45
- Szalay, F. S. 1977. Ancestors, descendents, sister groups and testing of phylogenetic hypotheses. Systematic Zoology 26: 12-18.
- Heads, M. 1985. On the nature of ancestors. Systematic Zoology 34: 205- 215.
- Foote, M. 1996. On the probability of ancestors in the fossil record. Paleobiology 22:141-151.
- de Pinna, M. C. C. 1991. Concepts and tests of homology in the cladistic paradigm. Cladistics 7: 367-394.
- de Queiroz, K. and M. J. Donoghue. 1988. Phylogenetic systematics and the species problem. Cladistics 4: 317-338.
- Farris, J. S. 1982. Outgroups and parsimony. Systematic Zoology 31: 328- 334.
- Felsenstein, J. 1985. Phylogenies and the comparative method. American Nature 125: 1-15.
- Cracraft, J. 1978. Science, philosophy, and systematics. Systematic Zoology 27: 213-216.
- Cracraft, J. 1979. Phylogenetic analysis, evolutionary models and paleontology. In: J. Cracraft and N. Eldredge [eds.], Phylogenetic analysis and paleontology, 7-39. Columbia University Press, New York.
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