Genetics 562                                               Population Genetics
Spring, 1999                                                    J. Felsenstein

                                   Syllabus
     Date    Topic                                             Reading

    
      3/29   Introduction; Hardy-Weinberg proportions           I.1-I.3
      3/30   " "        (P. Beerli)                              " "
      3/31   Multiple alleles, difft. sexes (P. Beerli)         I.4, I.6
        4/2  Sex-linkage       (M. Kuhner)                       I.7

          5  Linkage and linkage disequilibrium                  I.8
       6, 7  Natural Selection                                 II.1-II.2
          9  " "                                               II.4, II.5

         12  Polymorphisms and fitness                         II.6-II.8
         13  " " "                                             II.9-II.11
         14  " " "                                               " "
         16  Kin, group and species selection                    II.12

         19  Mutation                                         III.1-III.3
     20, 21  Maintenance of deleterious mutants               III.4-III.6
         23  Migration, Clines                                IV.1-IV.11

     26, 27  " "                                                 " "
     28, 30  Inbreeding in pedigrees                           V.1-V.5

     5/3, 4  Regular systems of mating                     V.10-V.12, V.14
          5  Inbreeding depression                               V.13
          7  Genetic drift                                    VI.1-VI.4

         10  " "                                                 " "
         11  Effective population size                        VI.5-VI.7
     12, 14  Neutral mutation theory                          VII.1-VII.2

         17  Repeated sequences                                 none
         18  Trees of genes                                      X.2
     19, 21  Molecular evolution                             VII.7, VII.8

     24, 25  Drift and other forces                     VII.4,VII.5,VII.8,VII.9
         26  Drift and other forces                            " " " "
         28  Genetics of quantitative characters              IX.1-IX.5

         31  HOLIDAY (Memorial Day; Folk Life Festival)
        6/1  Genetics of quantitative characters                 " "
          2  Components of variance, selection response       IX.6-IX.9
          4  Finding QTLs                                       (none)

Text: Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, by Joe Felsenstein ($16-$18 or so at
 ASUW Publishing, HUB)
Course web page: http://depts.washington.edu/genetics/courses/genet562/1999
Course newsgroup: uwash.class.genet562