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C O U R S E D E S C R I P T I O N Functional and mechanistic aspects of biological phenomena are usually pursued as though they were separate. This seminar will bring together a series of faculty speakers working on the integration of functional and mechanistic accounts of sex differences and reproduction. Speakers will combine perspectives from evolutionary and developmental biology and those from psychology and neuroscience to consider topics such as why organisms reproduce sexually, how sexes differentiate during development, and how and why sexes differ in behavior and physiology. Students will be expected to read and be prepared to discuss relevant papers each week. |
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F A L L 2 0 0 1 C L A S S S C H E D U L E Meeting Time: 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm Thursdays Location: CISAB seminar room, 402 N. Park Avenue (corner of 8th & Park, 1 block north of IMU) > Class schedule also listed on the CISAB Events Calendar August 30 -- Course introduction, Bill Timberlake September 6 -- Dale Sengelaub (Psychology Department / Program in Neural Science) "Mine's Bigger than Yours: Sex Differences in Brains and Behavior" September 13 -- Curt Lively (Biology Department) "Why Sex?" September 20 -- Emília Martins (Biology Department) "Sex and the Evolution of Lizard Displays" September 27 -- Jeff Alberts (Psychology Department) "Adaptation and Developmental Psychobiology" October 4 -- Ellen Ketterson (Biology Department) " Testosterone in Male and Female Songbirds - What's the Link?" October 11 -- Peter Cherbas (Biology Department) "Hormones that Make Cells Different - a Primer" October 28 -- John Bancroft (Kinsey Institute) "Why are Brains of Women so Much More Sensitive to Androgens than the Brains of Men? The Desensitization Hypothesis" October 25 -- Butch Brodie (Biology Department) "Hoosier Mamas? Indirect Genetic Effects and Parental Care" November 1-- Lynda Delph (Biology Department) "Sexual Selection and Sexual Dimorphism" November 8 -- Rod Suthers (Medical Sciences Program) " Birdsong and Sex: Do Bilateral Motor Skills have Special Meaning?" November 15 -- Bill Rowland (Biology Department) "Sex and Violence in Fishes" November 25 -- Thanksgiving holiday November 29 -- Troy Smith (Biology Department) "Shocking Sex Tails and Fish Stories: Weakly Electric Fish and the Biophysics of Behavior" December 6 -- Gregory Demas (Biology Department) "Sex and Death: Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions in Seasonally Breeding Rodents" |
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R E A D I N G S Registered students, see also: Timberlake's Oncourse A500 Page (password required) READINGS: A folder of readings are on file at CISAB (402 N. Park Avenue) for students to xerox or read in-house. Abstracts for most readings are linked at the end of each citation below. S E N G E L A U B Gubernick, D.J., D.R. Sengelaub & E.M. Kurz. 1993. A Neuroanamotmical correlate of paternal and maternal behavior in the biparental California mouse (Peromyscus californicus). Behavioral Neuroscience 107(1): 194-201. (Abstract) Hamilton, K.S., A.P. King, D.R. Sengelaub & M.J. West. 1998. Visual and song nuclei correlate with courtship skills in brown-headed cowbirds. Animal Behaviour 56:973-982. (Abstract) Isgor, C. & D.R. Sengelaub. 1998. Prenatal gonadal steroids affect adult spatial behavior, Ca1 and CA3 pyramidal cell morphology in rats. Hormones and Behavior 34183-198. (Abstract) Kurz, E.M., D.R. Sengelaub & A.P. Arnold. 1986. Androgens regulate the dendritic length of mammalian motoneurons in adulthood. Science 232:395-398. L I V E L Y Lively, C.M. & M.F. Dybdahl. 2000. Parasite adaptation to locally common host genotypes, Letters to Nature 405(6787):679-681. (Abstract) Lively, C.M. & M.F. Dybdahl. 1998. Host-Parasite coevolution: Evidence for rare advantage and time-lagged selection in a natural population, Evolution 52(4): 1057-1066. (Abstract) M A R T I N S Martins, E.P., A.N. Bissel, and K.K. Morgan. 1998. Population differences in a lizard communicative display: Evidence for rapid change in structure and function. Animal Behaviour 56:1113-1119. (Abstract | Full Text PDF ) Martins, E.P. and J. Lamont. 1998. Estimating ancestral states of a communicative display: A comparative study of Cyclura rock iguanas. Animal Behaviour 55:1685-1706. (Abstract) | Full Text PDF ) A L B E R T S Schank, J.C. and J.R. Alberts. 2000. A general approach for calculating the likelihood of dyadic interactions: Applications to sex preferences in rat pups and agonistic interactions in adults. Animal Learning & Behavior 28(4):354-359. (Abstract) K E T T E R S O N Ketterson, E.D. and V. Nolan Jr. 1999. Adaptation, exaptatin, and constraint: A hormonal perspective. The American Naturalist 154(supp.): S4-S25. (Abstract) C H E R B A S Riddiford, L.M., P. Cherbas, and J.W. Truman. 2001. Ecdysone receptors and their biological actions. Vitamins & Hormones 60: 1-73. B A N C R O F T Bancroft, John. In press 2001. Androgens and sexual function in men and women. In: Carrie Bagatell & William J. Bremner (Eds.) Androgens in health and disease (Humana Press). (Full Text PDF ) B R O D I E Wolf, J.B. and Edmund D. Brodie III. 1998. The coadaptaton of parental and offspring characters. Evolution 52(2):299-308. Agrawal, A.F., E.D. Brodie III and Jeremy Brown. 2001. Parent-offspring coadaptation and dual genetic control of maternal care. Science 292: 1710-1712. R O W L A N D Rowland, W.J. 2000. Habituation and development of response specificity to a sign stimulus: Male preference for female courtship posture in stickleback. Animal Behaviour 60:63-68. (Abstract) Rowland, W.J., K.J. Bolyard, J.J. Jenkins, and J. Fowler. 1995. Video playback experiments on stickleback mate choice: female motivation and attentiveness to male colour cues. Animal Behaviour 49:1559-1567. (Abstract) S U T H E R S Suthers, R.A. 1999. The motor basis of vocal performance in songbirds. IN: M. Hauser and M. Konishi. The design of animal communication (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pages 37-62. D E L P H Geber, M.A., T.E. Dawson and L.F. Delph. 1999. Gender and sexual dimorphism in flowering plants. (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), pp. 305. Delph, L.F. and T.R. Meagher. 1994. Sexual dimorphism masks life history trade-offs in the Dioecious plant (Silene latifolia). Ecology 76(3): 775-785. S M I T H Zakon, Harold H. and G. Troy Smith. 1999. Pharmacological characterization of ionic currents that regulate the pacemaker rhythm in a weakly electric fish. Journal of Neurobiology 42(2): 270-286. (Abstract | FULL TEXT PDF) D E M A S -references forthcoming- |
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