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

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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 χ^2 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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