Genetics and the Origin of Species
Organized by Francisco Ayala and Walter Fitch
January 30-February 1, 1997
Irvine, CA
Friday, January 31
Session One: Genetic Variation and Its Origins
Fancisco J. Ayala, University of California, Irvine, Chairperson
Introduction
Origin of Genes
Walter Gilbert, Harvard University
Transposable Elements as Sources of Variation in Animals and Plants
Margaret G. Kidwell, University of Arizona
Irvine Variation and Evolution of Influenza Viruses
Walter M. Fitch, University of California
Genes, Peoples, and Languages
L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, Stanford University
Session Two: Adaptation and Natural Selection
Lee Ehrman, SUNY, Purchase, Chairperson
Superoxide Dismutase (SOD): An Unfolding Story of Natural Selection
Richard R. Hudson, University of California, Irvine
Self-Incompatibility Alleles and Inferences from Shared Polymorphisms
Andrew G. Clark, Pennsylvania State University
Variation in the Regulation of an Allozyme Locus in Drosophila: Adaptation or Non-Darwinian Evolution?
Rollin C. Richmond, SUNY, Stony Brook
Natural Selection and "Genetics and the Origin of Species"
Wyatt W. Anderson, University of Georgia
Friday Evening
John A. Moore, University of California
Introduction
Banquet Lecture
Richard C. Lewontin, University of Harvard
Is Population Genetics an Experimental Science?
Saturday, February 1
Session Three Population Differentiation Speciation
Bruce Wallace, VA Polytechnic Inst, Chairperson
Phylogenetics and the Origin of Species
John C. Avise, University of Georgia
Sperm and Ejaculate Differentiation and Reproductive Isolation
Therese Ann Markow, Arizona State University
Berkeley Incipient Speciation in Salamanders
David Wake, University of California
Genetics and the Origin of Bird Species
Peter R. Grant, Princeton University
Session Four Patterns of Evolution
Walter M. Fitch, University of California, Irvine, Chairperson
Vagaries of the Molecular Clock
Francisco J. Ayala, University of California, Irvine
Evolution of Codon Usage Bias in Drosophila
Jeffery R. Powell, Yale University
Nuclear Gene Evolution in Plants
Michael T. Clegg, University of California, Riverside
Variation and Evolution of MHC and Immunoglobulin
Masatoshi Nei, Pennsylvania State University
Organizing Committee:
Francisco J. Ayala, co-chair
Walter M. Fitch, co- chair
Wyatt W. Anderson
Michael T. Clegg
Lee Ehrman
Margaret G. Kidwell
Bruce Wallace
