Plant speciation
at Plant Canada 2003

St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
June 26-28 2003

Page title: Abstracts
 

Alpine flowers

Helianthus anomalus

Beech forest

Speakers
Posters

Speakers

Historical biogeography of circumarctic plants
Abbott, Richard J.

Hybridization, polyploidy and speciation in Spartina (Poaceae)
Ainouche, M.L. & Baumel, A.

Verne Grant and Louisiana Irises: is there anything new under the sun?
Arnold, Michael L., Bouck, Amy C., & Cornman, R. Scott

Selection in an Ipomopsis hybrid zone: implications for ecological speciation
Campbell, D.R.

Evolution in spatially structured populations
Church, S.

Reticulate evolution in diploid and polyploid perennial soybeans (Glycine subg. Glycine)
Doyle, J.J., Doyle, J.L., Rauscher, J.T. & Brown, A.H.D.

Geographic cohesion, parallel adaptive radiations, and consequent floral evolution in Calochortus (Calochortaceae)
Givnish, Thomas J. & Patterson, Thomas B.

Speciation in plants: how much has been learned since 1950?
Gottlieb, L. D.

Fern speciation: different mechanisms meet different challenges and opportunities
Haufler, Chris

Genetics of reproductive isolation between Aquilegia formosa and A. pubescens
Hodges, Scott A.

Evolutionary dynamics of diploid-polyploid contact zone: insights into polyploid speciation
Husband, B.C. & Sabara, H.

Historical inferences from the self-incompatibility locus
Igic, Boris & Kohn, Joshua R.

Gene flow and adaptive population divergence
Latta, Robert G.

The cytoplasmic factor in plant speciation
Levin, Donald A.

Hybridization and ecological divergence in sunflowers
Lexer, Christian

Processes and patterns of intrinsic reproductive barriers in the Solanaceae
Livingstone, Kevin & Rieseberg, Loren H.

Hybridization as a mechanism of dispersal in oaks
Petit, R. J., Bodénès, C., Ducousso, A., Roussel, G. & Kremer, A.

Integration of populations and differentiation of species
Rieseberg, Loren H.

Adaptive radiation and regulatory gene evolution in the Hawaiian
silversword alliance (Asteraceae)

Robichaux, R.H., Lawton-Rauh, A., & Purugganan, M.D.

Genomic hot spots of genetic differentiation between European sympatric oak species
Saintagne, Caroline; Mariette, Stephanie; Bodénès , Catherine; Barreneche, Teresa; Goicoechea, Pablo; Zanetto, Anne; Plomion, Christophe; Kremer, Antoine

Phylogenetic estimation of speciation and extinction rates
Sanderson, Michael J.

Adaptive divergence and speciation in wild rice (Oryza)
Sang, Tao, Li, Changbao & Zhou, Ailing

The dynamics of polyploid establishment in flowering plants
Schemske, Douglas W., And Ramsey, Justin

Polyploidy and speciation
Soltis, D.E. & Soltis, P.S.

Hybridization and speciation in Gossypium
Wendel, Jonathan F.

The ecology of plant speciation
Whitton, Jeannette

Mating system evolution and speciation in monkey flowers
Willis, John H. & Fishman, Lila

    

Illustrations: Plant Speciation logo by Sam Day. The logo depicts scarlet Gilia, of the Polemoniaceae - the systematics of the Polemoniaceae was one of Verne Grant's specialist fields. Alpine flowers, courtesy of T J Tschaplinski. Helianthus anomalus, courtesy of L Rieseberg. Beech forest, courtesy of R J Norby.
Plant speciation is funded by the New Phytologist Trust

Last updated: January 17, 2007