Biology 3466b

Evolutionary Genetics

2017

Instructor: André Lachance

Room 2036 Biology & Geology Building

 

Lectures

 

Biology and Geology Building 0153

Monday 12:30 and Thursday 11:30

Laboratory

 

Section 003 - Somerville House 1310

Tuesday 13:30

 

Section 002 - Somerville House 1310

Wednesday 14:30

We shall start lectures in full force on January 5 and practicals on January 10

For further details on the significance of attendance during the first week of term, see the lovely poem by Tom Wayman

 

The lab reports are due at the end of each lab.

There is an automatic (and final) extension to

the following Monday at 12:30 (in class).
Beware: printer malfunctions and whiteouts on the 401
have a high probability of occurrence on Monday mornings.

Midterm test in class - February 16, 11:30

Final examination - TBA

 

Course outline - 2017
 

Policy on cell phones in the classroom

 

Legal stuff:

Accommodations

Scholastic offenses

*

 

Stress - distress
Consult UWO Health and Wellness website

 


Concepts

"Gaps in the Theory exist for which there is no evidence" (Board of Education, Dover, Pennsylvania)

Evolution at ScienceDaily


Nature's Gems

Filling the gaps at UWO

Books

People

Concepts, questions, problems

References

Optional 

textbook for 2016 Halliburton

A classic:
Hartl and Clark

The Origin online


Spencer 

Wallace

Johannsen


Punnett

Hardy and Weinberg


Morgan

Image gallery

Creating a χ2 distribution for the Hardy-Weinberg equation

Animal breeding, selection, heritability

Co-dominance vs
incomplete dominance

Interpretation of microsatellite gels

Microsatellites and HW problems

Survival of the fittest, improbability

Microbial growth

Rare recessive alleles

Binomial drift model

Binomial drift model n = 16
 
Simulation of a Fisher-Wright
model of drift with
200 demes of size 10

Understanding the calculation of inbreeding (F) from a pedigree

Dominance

Inbreeding regimes


Kin altruism

Drift in Galapagos lizards

Hardy 1908

 

Haldane 1924

 

Lewontin & Hubby 1966

 

Kimura 1968

 

Dean et al. 2002

 

Illinois corn experiment

 

Linnen et al. 2009 Selection in dear mouse

 

A balanced polymorphism in yeastt

Rh factor maintained by heterozygote advantage


The rise and fall of kin selection?


A gene for success?


Cepea nemoralis

Photos

Allozyme gels

 

 An SSCP gel

 

A sequence alignment

 

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