Genetics 562 Population Genetics
Spring, 1997 J. Felsenstein
Syllabus
Date Topic Reading
3/31 Introduction; Hardy-Weinberg proportions I.1-I.3
4/1 " " " "
2 Multiple alleles, sex-linkage I.4, I.6, I.7
4 Linkage and linkage disequilibrium I.8
7, 8 Natural Selection II.1-II.2
9 " II.4, II.5
11 Polymorphisms and fitness II.6-II.8
14, 15 " " " "
16 " II.9-II.11
18 Kin, group and species selection II.12
21 Mutation III.1-III.3
22, 23 Maintenance of deleterious mutants III.4-III.6
25 Migration, Clines IV.1-IV.11
28, 29 " " " "
30, 5/2 Inbreeding in pedigrees V.1-V.5
5, 6 Guest lectures (TBA)
7 Regular systems of mating V.10-V.12, V.14
9 " " " "
12 Inbreeding depression V.13
13 Genetic drift VI.1-VI.4
14 " " " "
16 Effective population size VI.5-VI.7
19, 20 Neutral mutation theory VII.1-VII.2
21 Repeated sequences none
23 Trees of genes X.2
26 HOLIDAY (Memorial Day; Folk Festival)
27, 28 Molecular evolution VII.7, VII.8
29 Drift and other forces VII.4,VII.5,VII.8,VII.9
6/2 Drift and other forces " " " "
3 Genetics of quantitative characters IX.1-IX.5
4 Components of variance, selection response IX.6-IX.9
6 Guest lecture (TBA)
Text:
Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, by Joe Felsenstein ($18 or so at ASUW Publishing, HUB)
Course web page: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~genetics/courses/genet562/1997
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