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Biology 4289bBiosystematics and Phylogenetics |
Instructor: André LachanceRoom
2036 Biology and Geology Building |
Prof Lachance will be on sabbatical leave in 2011-2012.
The course will be given by Dr. Gordana Rasic.
There is room for 17 more students.
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Schedule
Lectures:
TBA
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 8:30
Tutorials:
TBA
Tuesday and Friday 9:30
Past guest lectures
Species concepts
Ms. Gordana Rasic
Systematics and evolution of bats
Dr. Brock Fenton
Testing macroevolutionary hypotheses
Dr. Graham Thompson
Applications of microsatellite typing in determination of parenthood in animals
Dr. Bryan Neff
Applications of molecular phylogenetics in our understanding of bird diversity
Dr. Paul Handford
Assignments
1. Select a set of 5 species on the basis of the following criteria:
A homologous sequence should be available for each species.
The species should be related.
2. Draw a list of your species (Excel) with a few (3-5) characters, the relevant states or values, and an analysis of these characters in terms of data types.
Presentation
of 2-3 min, focusing on the salient features of your
characters.
3. Discuss various species concepts as they may apply to your selected species.
Focus on one or two concepts.
Include an etymological analysis of some of the names.
Presentation of 3-5 min.
4. Construct a dichotomous, monothetic identification key to your species.
Presentation of 2-3 min.
5. Updated
Retrieve a set of homologous sequences for your chosen species and save them as a multiple FASTA file (or otherwise).
Align them with one of the tools provided in Mega5 (computers 1-20, UC2); trim the fringe; save as a Mega file; open the file to make it active.
Construct a tree of any kind (preferably scaled). Export the tree to PowerPoint.
Map selected characters of your species onto the tree, identifying those that are likely to be synapomorphies, homoplasies, or symplesiomorphies.
Presentation of 10 min.
By the end of this course, you should be familiar with all the concepts listed here
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People |
Concepts |
Software, etc. |
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Phylogeny of Plants DNA
Forensics Aristotle's
Great Chain of Being drawn
by Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana (1579) The Tree of Life
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Install Chromas Lite
Download a raw
electropherogram to edit with Chromas This
is a recent sequence from my lab. See if you can edit it with
Chromas
and then BLAST it to see if it matches anything. An-online
dot-plot program at Colorado State (Draws
the forward plot only. To detect inverted sequences, you will
need first to obtain the reverse complement of one of the two
sequences.)
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Books |
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(as suggested by past students):
Books on systematics at Sinauer International
Code of Botanical Nomenclature (online) The
International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria |
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Reserve list - Taylor Library |
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As per your requests |
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Biology 3466b
Website ●
André
Lachance's
UWO-Biology Website
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