[ Reading List of Books and Book Chapters ]
This reading list of books and book chapters is intended for persons who want to broaden their general outlook on the origin of flowering plants, holometabolous insects, and related topics in biochemistry and evolutionary ecology.
A cut and polished cross-section of a permineralized log of Araucarioxylon arizonicum (Araucariaceae, Araucariales, Pinidae) from the Triassic Chinle Formation is shown to the right.
The image on this page was captured by T. Scott Williams, Petrified Forest National Park Curator and Photographer. The photograph is reproduced here with his written permission.
I apologize for not including other potentially interesting titles published since January 1, 2000. My favorite book and book chapter selections appear below:
Anderson, J. M. and H. M. Anderson. 2003. Heyday of the Gymnosperms: Systematics and Biodiversity of the Late Triassic Molteno Fructifications, Strelitzia 15. Pretoria: National Botanical Institute, 398 pp.
Ash, S. R. 2005. Petrified Forest: A Story in Stone. Petrified Forest: Petrified Forest Natural History Association, 54 pp.
Bateman, R. A., J. Hilton, and P. J. Rudall. 2011. Spatial separation and developmental divergence of male and female reproductive units in gymnosperms, and their relevance to the origin of the angiosperm flower. Pp. 8-48 In: L. Wanntorp and L. P. Ronse de Craene (eds.), Flowers on the Tree of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 326 pp.
Baum, D. A. and M. J. Donoghue. 2002. Transformation of function, heterotopy, and the evolution of plant development. Pp. 52-69 In: Q. C. B. Cronk, R. Bateman, and J. Hawkins (eds.), Developmental Genetics and Plant Evolution, The Systematics Association Special Volume Series 65. London: Taylor and Francis, 543 pp.
Baum, D. A. and L. C. Hileman. 2006. A developmental genetic model for the origin of the flower. Pp. 3-27 In: C. Ainsworth (ed.), Volume 20, Annual Plant Reviews, Flowering and Its Manipulation. Sheffield: Blackwell, 304 pp.
Benton, M. 2009. Paleontology and the history of life. Pp. 80-104 In: M. Ruse and J. Travis (eds.) with a forward by E. O. Wilson, Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 979 pp.
Benton, M. and D. A. T. Harper. 2009. Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 592 pp.
Bowen, N. J. and I. K. Jordan. 2007. Exaptation of protein coding sequences from transposable elements. Pp. 147-162 In: J.-N. Volff (ed.), Gene and Protein Evolution, Genome Dynamics Volume 3. Basel: Karger, 194 pp.
Burleigh, J. G. 2012. 7. Variation in rates of molecular evolution in plants and implications for estimating divergence times. Pp. 103-112 In: J. F. Wendel, J. Greilhuber, J. Dolezel, and I. J. Leitch (eds.), Plant Genome Diversity Volume 1. New York: Springer, 279 pp.
Carlquist, S. 2001. Comparative Wood Anatomy: Systematic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Aspects of Dicotyledon Wood, Second Edition. New York: Springer, 448 pp.
Carroll, S. B., J. K. Grenier, and S. D. Weatherbee. 2005. From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 258 pp.
Céspedes, C. L., A. J. G. Avila, J. C. Marin, M. Dominguez L., P. Torres, and E. Aranda. 2006. 1. Natural compounds as antioxidant and moulting inhibitors can play a role as a model for search of new botanical pesticides. Pp. 1-27 In: M. Rai and M. C. Carpinella (eds.), Advances in Phytomedicine, Volume 3, Naturally Occurring Bioactive Compounds. Boston: Elsevier, 502 pp.
Chehab, E. W., Y. Wang, and J. Braam. 2011. Mechanical force response of plant cells and plants. Pp. 173-194 In: P. Wojtaszek (ed.), Signaling and Communication in Plants: Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants. New York: Springer, 351 pp.
Columbus, J. T., E. A. Friar, C. W. Hamilton, J. M. Porter, L. M. Prince, and M. G. Simpson (eds.). 2006. Monocots: Comparative Biology and Evolution, Volume 1, Excluding Poales (Aliso Volume 22). Pomona: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, 735 pp.
Davidson, E. H. 2006. The Regulatory Genome: Gene Regulatory Networks in Development and Evolution. Boston: Academic Press, 289 pp.
Detrain, C. and J.-L. Deneubourg. 2008. Collective decision-making and foraging patterns in ants and honeybees. Pp. 123-173 In: J. Casas and S. J. Simpson (eds.), Volume 35, Advances in Insect Physiology. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 180 pp.
Dilcher, D. L. 2010. Major innovations in angiosperm evolution. Pp. 97-116 In: C. T. Gee (ed.), Plants in Mesozoic Time, Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 373 pp.
DiMichele, W. A., W. E. Stein, and R. M. Bateman. 2001. Ecological sorting of vascular plant classes during the Paleozoic evolutionary radiation. Pp. 285-335 In: W. D. Allmon and D. J. Bottjer (eds.), Evolutionary Palaeoecology: The Ecological Context of Macroevolutionary Change. New York: Columbia University Press, 357 pp.
Doyle, J. A. 2007. Systematic value and evolution of leaf architecture across angiosperms in light of molecular phylogenetic analyses. Pp. 21-38 In: D. M. Jarzen, S. R. Manchester, G. J. Retallack, and S. A. Jarzen (eds.), Advances in Angiosperm Paleobotany and Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Contributions Honouring David L. Dilcher and Jack A. Wolfe. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, 189 pp.
Doyle, J. A. and P. K. Endress. 2011. 4. Tracing the early evolutionary diversification of the angiosperm flower. Pp. 88-119 In: L. Wanntorp and L. Ronse de Craene (eds.), Flowers on the Tree of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 326 pp.
Endress, P. K. 2001. Origins of flower morphology. Chapter 21, Pp. 493-510 In: G. P. Wagner (ed.), The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology, San Diego: Academic Press, 622 pp.
Erwin, D. H. 2006. Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 306 pp.
Erwin, D. H. 2010. Chapter 10. Microevolution and macroevolution are not governed by the same processes. Pp. 180-193 In: F. J. Ayala and R. Arp (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy and Biology, Part 12. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 440 pp.
Fawcett, J. A., Y. van de Peer, and S. Maere. 2012. 18. Significance and biological consequences of polyploidization in land plant evolution. In: J. Greilhuber, J. Dolezel, and J. F. Wendel (eds.), Plant Genome Diversity Volume 2. New York: Springer, 570 pp.
Feild, T. S. 2005. Chapter 24. Are vessels in seed plants evolutionary innovations to similar ecological contexts? Pp. 501-516 In: N. M. Holbrook and M. A. Zwieniecki (eds.), Vascular Transport in Plants, New York: Academic Press, 564 pp.
Fontdevila, A. 2011. The Dynamic Genome: A Darwinian Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 212 pp.
Friis, E. M., P. R. Crane, and K. R. Pedersen. 2011. Early Flowers and Angiosperm Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 596 pp.
Galen, E. 2010. Phytohormones and Flowering: The Role of Hormones in Plant Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 418 pp.
Gastaldo, R. A. and T. M. Denko. 2011. Chapter 7. The relationship between continental landscape evolution and the plant-fossil record: long term hydrologic controls on preservation. Pp. 249-285 In: P. A. Allison and D. J. Bottjer (eds.), Taphonomy: Process and Bias Through Time, Topics in Geobiology 32. New York: Springer, 599 pp.
Glover, B. 2007. Understanding Flowers and Flowering: An Integrated Approach. New York: Oxford University Press, 227 pp.
Gould, S. J. 2002. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1433 pp.
Grimaldi, D. and M. S. Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 755 pp.
Hemsley, A. R. and I. Poole (eds.). 2004. The Evolution of Plant Physiology, From Whole Plants to Ecosystems, Linnean Society Symposium Series Number 21. London: Elsevier Academic Press, 492 pp.
Herman, A. B. and J. Kvacek. 2010. Late Cretaceous Grünbach Flora of Austria. Wien: Verlag Naturhistorisches Museum, 224 pp.
Heywood, V. H., R. K. Brummitt, A. Culham, and O. Seberg. 2011. Flowering Plants: A Concise Pictorial Guide. London: Kew Publishing, 272 pp.
Hohn, T., K. R. Richert-Pöggeles, C. Staginnus, G. Harper, T. Schwarzacher, C. H. Teo, P.-Y. Techeney, M.-L. Iskra-Caruana, and R. Hull. 2008. Chapter 4. Evolution of integrated plant viruses. Pp. 53-81 In: M. J. Roossinck (ed.), Plant Virus Evolution. Berlin: Springer, 223 pp.
Hufford, L. 2001. 2. Ontogenetic sequences: homology, evolution, and the patterning of clade diversity. Pp. 27-57 In: M. L. Zelditch (ed.), Beyond Heterochrony: the Evolution of Development. New York: Wiley, 371 pp.
Itoh, H., M. Ueguchi-Tanaka, and M. Matsuoka. 2008. Molecular biology of gibberellins signaling in higher plants. Pp. 191-220 In: K. W. Jeon (ed.), International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, Volume 268. Boston: Academic Press, Elsevier, 316 pp.
Jackson, D. 2005. 6. Transcription factor movement through plasmodesmata. Pp. 113-134 In: K. J. Oparka (ed.), Plasmodesmata, Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 18. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 311 pp.
Knoop, V., U. Volkmar, J. Hecht, and F. Grewe. 2011. Mitochondrial genome evolution in the plant lineage. Pp. 3-29 In: F. Kempken (ed.), Plant Mitochondria, Advances in Plant Biology, Volume 1, Part 1. New York: Springer, 535 pp.
Kramer, E. M. 2009. Chapter 4. New model systems for the study of developmental evolution in plants. Pp. 67-105 In: G. Schatten (ed.), Current Topics in Developmental Biology Volume 86, Evolution and Development. London: Elsevier Academic Press.
Krassilov, V. A. 2002. Chapter 29. Character parallelism and reticulation in the origin of angiosperms. Pp. 373-382 In: M. Syvanen and C. I. Kado (eds.), Horizontal Gene Transfer, San Diego: Academic Press, 445 pp.
Krassilov, V. A. and A. Rasnitsyn (eds.). 2008. Plant-Arthropod Interactions in the Early Angiosperm History - Evidence from the Cretaceous of Israel. Sofia: Pensoft, 229 pp.
Labandeira, C. C. 2000. The paleobiology of pollination and its precursors. Pp. 233-269 In: R. A. Gastaldo and W. A. DiMichele (eds.), Phanerozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Paleontological Society Papers 6: 233-269.
Labandeira, C. C. 2002. Chapter 2. The history of associations between plants and insects. Pp. 26-74 In: C. M. Herrera and O. Pellmyr (eds.), Plant Animal Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach. Oxford: Blackwell, 328 pp.
Labandeira, C. C. 2005. Chapter Nine. Fossil history and evolutionary ecology of Diptera and their associations with plants. Pp. 217-273 In: D. K. Yeates and B. M. Wiegmann (eds.), The Evolutionary Biology of Flies. New York: Columbia University Press, 430 pp.
Langdale, J. A. and C. J. Harrison. 2008. Developmental transitions during the evolution of plant form. Pp. 299-316 In: A. Minelli and G. Fusco (eds.), Evolving Pathways: Key Themes in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 426 pp.
Laubichler, M. D. 2010. Chapter 11. Evolutionary-developmental biology offers a significant challenge to the neo-Darwinian paradigm. Pp. 199-212 In: F. J. Ayala and R. Arp (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy and Biology, Part 12. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 440 pp.
Leins, P. and C. Erbar. 2010. Flower and Fruit: Morphology, Ontogeny, Phylogeny, Function, and Ecology. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, 439 pp.
Leitch, I. J. 2012. 19. Genome size diversity and evolution in land plants. In: J. Greilhuber, J. Dolezel, and J. F. Wendel (eds.), Plant Genome Diversity Volume 2. New York: Springer, 570 pp.
Lovisolo, O., R. Hull, and O. Rösler. 2003. Coevolution of viruses with hosts and vectors and possible paleontology. Pp. 325-379 In: K. Maramorosch, F. A. Murphy, and A. J. Shatkin (eds.), Advances in Virus Research, Volume 62. Boston: Elsevier-Academic Press.
Lynch, M. 2007. The Origins of Genome Architecture. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates, Inc., 494 pp.
Maeda, R. K. and F. Karch. 2009. Chapter 1. The bithorax complex of Drosophila: an exceptional Hox cluster. Pp. 1-33 In: Current Topics in Developmental Biology Volume 88, Hox Genes. London: Elsevier Academic Press.
Magallón, S. 2009. Flowering plants (Magnoliophyta). Pp. 161-212 In: S. B. Hedges and S. Kumar (eds.), The Timetree of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 551 pp.
McElwain, J. C., K. J. Willis, and R. Lupia. 2005. Chapter 7. Cretaceous CO2 decline and the radiation and diversification of angiosperms. Pp. 133-165 In: J. R. Ehleringer, T. E. Cerling, and M.-D. Dearing (eds.), A History of Atmospheric CO2 and its Effects on Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems. New York: Springer, 530 pp.
McElwain, J. C., K. J. Willis, and K. J. Niklas. 2011. 5. Long-term fluctuations in atmospheric CO2 concentration influence plant speciation rates. Pp. 122-140 In: T. R. Hodkinson, M. B. Jones, S. Waldren, and J. A. N. Parnell (eds.), Climate Change, Ecology and Systematics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 524 pp.
Moldowan, J. M. and S. R. Jacobsen. 2002. Chemical signals for early evolution of major taxa: biosignatures and taxon-specific biomarkers. Pp. 19-26 In: W. G. Ernst (ed.), Frontiers in Geochemistry, Organic, Solution, and Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Konrad Krauskopf Volume 2, International Book Series, Volume 6. Columbia: Bellwether Publishing Ltd., 265 pp.
Nichols, D. J. and K. R. Johnson. 2008. Plants and the K-T Boundary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 292 pp.
Osborne, D. J. and M. T. McManus. 2005. Hormones, Signals and Target Cells in Plant Development, Developmental and Cell Biology Series No. 41. New York: Cambridge University Press, 266 pp.
Rampino M. R., A. Prokoph, A. C. Adler, and D. M. Schwindt. 2002. Abruptness of the end-Permian mass extinction as determined from biostratigraphic and cyclostratigraphic analyses of European western Tethyan sections. Pp. 415-427 In C. Koeberl and K. G. MacLeod (eds.), Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond, Geological Society of America Special Paper 356.
Retallack, G. J. 2005. Permian greenhouse crises. Pp. 256-269 In: S. G. Lucas and K. E. Zeigler (eds.), The Nonmarine Permian, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 30. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico.
Rijpkema, A. S., J. Zethof, T. Gerats, and M. Vandenbussche. 2008. Chapter 10, Evolution and development of the flower. Pp. 199-224 In: T. Gerats and J. Strommer (eds.), Petunia: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Physiological Genetics. New York: Springer, 445 pp.
Schneider, H., K. M. Pryer, R. Cranfill, A. R. Smith, and P. G. Wolf. 2002. 17. Evolution of vascular plant body plans: a phylogenetic perspective. Pp. 330-364 In: Q. C. B. Cronk, R. Bateman, and J. Hawkins (eds.), Developmental Genetics and Plant Evolution, The Systematics Association Special Volume Series 65. London: Taylor and Francis, 543 pp.
Seberg, O., G. Petersen, A. S. Barfod, and J. I. Davis. 2010. Diversity, Phylogeny, and Evolution in the Monocotyledons. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 663 pp.
Soltis, D. E., C. D. Bell, S. Kim, and P. S. Soltis. 2008. Origin and early evolution of angiosperms. Pp. 3-25 In: C. D. Schlichting and T. A. Mousseau (eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1133 Issue, The Year in Evolutionary Biology 2008. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 203 pp.
Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, P. K. Endress, and M. W. Chase. 2005. Phylogeny and Evolution of Angiosperms. Sunderland: Sinauer, 370 pp.
Sues, H.-D. and N. C. Fraser. 2010. Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition. New York: Columbia University Press, 224 pp.
Sun, G., M. A. Akhmetiev, L. Golovneva, E. Bugdaeva, C. Quan, T. M. Kodrul, H. Nishida, Y. Sun, C. Sun, K. Johnson, and D. Dilcher. 2007. Late Cretaceous plants from Jiayan along Heilongjiang River, northeast China. Pp. 75-84 In: D. M. Jarzen, S. R. Manchester, G. J. Retallack, and S. A. Jarzen (eds.), Advances in Angiosperm Paleobotany and Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Contributions Honouring David L. Dilcher and Jack A. Wolfe. Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, 189 pp.
Takhtajan, A. 2009. Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants, Second Edition. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 872 pp.
Taylor, D. W. 2010. Implications of fossil floral data on understanding the early evolution of molecular developmental controls of flowers. Pp. 119-169 In: C. T. Gee (ed.), Plants in Mesozoic Time, Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 373 pp.
Taylor, T. N., E. L. Taylor, and M. Krings. 2009. Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, Second Edition. Burlington: Elsevier Academic Press, 1230 pp.
Theißen, G. and K. Kaufmann. 2006. 6. Molecular developmental genetics and the evolution of flowers. Pp. 124-149 In: B. R. Jordan (ed.), The Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Flowering, Second Edition. Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 404 pp.
Thompson, J. N. 2005. The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 443 pp.
Tomlinson P. B., J. W. Horn, and J. B. Fisher. 2011. The Anatomy of Palms (Arecaceae–Palmae). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 276 pp.
Truman, J. W. and L. M. Riddiford. 2002. 34. Insect developmental hormones and their mechanism of action. Pp. 841-873 In: D. W. Pfaff, A. P. Arnold, A. M. Etgen, S. E. Fahrbach, and R. T. Rubin (eds.), Hormones, Brain, and Behavior, Volume 2. Boston: Academic Press, 873 pp.
Tu, Z. 2005. 4.12. Insect transposable elements. Pp. 395-436 In: L. I. Gilbert, K. Iatrou, and S. S. Gill (eds.), Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science, Volume 4, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 3200 pp.
Van de Peer, Y. and A. Meyer. 2005. Large-scale gene and ancient genome duplications. Pp. 329-368 In: T. Gregory (ed.), The Evolution of the Genome, Burlington: Elsevier Academic Press, 740 pp.
Vermeij, G. J. 2003. Temperature, tectonics, and evolution. Pp. 209-232 In: L. J. Rothschild and A. M. Lister (eds.), Evolution on Planet Earth: Impact of the Physical Environment. London: Academic Press, 456 pp.
Vermeij, G. J. 2004. Nature: An Economic History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 464 pp.
Vialette-Guiraud, A. C. M. and C. P. Scutt. 2009. Chapter 1. Carpel evolution. Pp. 1-34 In: L. Østergaard (ed.), Fruit Development and Seed Dispersal, Annual Plant Reviews Volume 38. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 368 pp.
Wang, X. 2009. New fossils and new hope for the origin of angiosperms. Pp. 51-70 In: P. Pontarotti (ed.), Evolutionary biology: Concept, Modeling, and Application. London: Springer Verlag, 398 pp.
Weishampel, D. B. and C.-M. Jianu. 2000. Chapter 5, Plant-eaters and ghost lineages: dinosaurian herbivory revisited. Pp. 123-143 In: H.-D. Sues (ed.), Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates: Perspectives from the Fossil Record. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 256 pp.
West-Eberhard, M. J. 2003. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 794 pp.
Whitman, D. W. and T. N. Ananthakrishnan (eds.). 2009. Phenotypic Plasticity of Insects: Mechanisms and Consequences. New Hampshire: Enfield Publishing and Distributing Company, 894 pp.
Wray, G. A. 2009. Evolution and development. Pp. 208-236 In: M. Ruse and J. Travis (eds.), with a forward by E. O. Wilson, Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 979 pp.
Zherikhin, V. V. 2002. Ecological history of terrestrial insects. Pp. 331-388 In.: A. P. Rasnitsyn and D. I. J. Quicke (eds.), History of Insects. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 517 pp.
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Need a sample data set for your course in phylogenetics? Advanced students may critique and practice with gigantopteroid data.
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