Botany 940 - Systematics Seminar
Phylogenetic Nomenclature
Spring 2005
Monday 1:20-2:10
D. Baum, B. Larget, P. Berry, K. Sytsma - instructors
The focus of this seminar will be to examine the field of "phylogenetic nomenclature": We will read the historical literature dealing with the field, more modern issues in the field, compare it to traditional ranked systems of classification and nomenclature, and critically examine some of the plant, animal, and fungal examples using phylogenetic nomenclature. One or two papers will be read each week by all participants - faculty, staff, enrolled graduate students, and regular visitors. PDF versions of the papers will be available through the links below. A more exhaustive citation list on "phylogenetic nomenclature" literature will be periodically updated and made available as a Word file.
| Date | Leader | Topic | Reading | Title + other sources |
| January 24 | Introduction | |||
| January
31 |
David Baum | Classic papers | Toward a phylogenetic system of biological nomenclature. TREE 9:27-31 |
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| February 7 |
Ben VanEe | Brummitt exchange | Taxonomy versus cladonomy, a fundamental controversy in biological systematics. Taxon 46:723-734 |
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| February 14 | Rachel Schmidt | Nixon & Carpenter exchange | Nixon & Carpenter 2000 | On the other "phylogenetic systematics". Cladistics 16:298-318. |
| February 21 | (cont. discussion) | previous two papers | add. reading: Baum et al. 1998. A durian by any other name: taxonomy and nomenclature of the core Malvales. Harv. Pap. Bot. 3:315-330 | |
| February 28 | Jay Walker | case study: mint family | Cantino et al. 1999a | Caryopteris (Lamiaceae) and the conflict between phylogenetic and pragmatic considerations in botanical nomenclature. Syst. Bot 23:369-386 add. reading: Cantino et al. 1997 |
| March 7 | Daniel Stanton | Integrating "Linnaean" and Phylogenetic Nomenclature | Linnaean nomenclature in the 21 st Century: a report from a workshop
on integrating traditional nomenclature and phylogenetic classification.
Taxon Classifying species versus naming clades. Taxon 53:795-798. add. reading: Barkley et al. 2004b |
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| March 14 | Naomi Delventhal | Why we name organisms - thoughts from Peter Stevens | How to interpret botanical classifications - suggestions from history. BioScience 47:243-250 Mind, memory and history: How classifications are shaped by and through time, and some consequences.Zoological Scripta 26:293-301 add reading: Stevens 2002 |
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| March 21 | Spring Break | |||
| March 28 | Riki Olivares | Hierarchies in systematics | Knox 1998 | The use of hierarchies as organizational models in systematics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 63:1-49 |
| April 4 | No Class | |||
| April 11 | Marie Trest | Phylogenetic nomenclature and classification in fungi | Hibbet & Donoghue 1998 |
Integrating phylogenetic analysis and classification in fungi. Mycologia 90:347-356 |
| April 18 | Ken Sytsma | Species names in Phylogenetic Nomenclature | Species names in Phylogenetic Nomenclature. Systematic Biology 48:790-807 The PhyloCode is fatally flawed, and the "Linnaean" System can easily be fixed. The Botanical Review 69:111-120 add. readings: Keller et al. 2003, Dayrat et al 2004 |
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| April 25 | Liliana Katinas & Jorge Crisci | The Phylocode in the light of our time: Nomenclature, systematics, biodiversity | Guidelines on Biological Nomenclature A fifty-year plan for biodiversity studies. Science 258:1099-1100 add. reading: Jeffrey 2000 - Biological Nomenclature, 3rd ed. |
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| May 2 | Ivalú Cacho | TBA |
