Date
Description
28
Aug
Genetic transmission in populations
30
Aug
The Hardy-Weinberg principle; estimating allele frequencies
01
Sep
Inbreeding and self-fertilization
Problem #1 assigned
04
Sep
Labor Day -- no classes
06
Sep
Testing for departure from Hardy-Weinberg proportions
08
Sep
The Wahlund effect and Wright's F-statistics
11
Sep
The genetic structure of populations: Nei's G
st
and Weir & Cockerham's
Problem #1 due
13
Sep
The genetic structure of populations: a Bayesian approach
15
Sep
The genetic structure of populations: individual assignment
Project #1 assigned
18
Sep
Two-locus population genetics
20
Sep
The genetics of natural selection: introduction
25
Sep
Detecting viability selection
Project #1 due
27
Sep
Selection at one locus with multiple alleles
29
Sep
Genetic drift: the process
Problem #2 assigned
02
Oct
Genetic drift: the consequences
04
Oct
Genetic drift: more consequences
06
Oct
Mutation, migration, and genetic drift
Problem #2 due
09
Oct
Genetic drift: the interaction of drift and selection
11
Oct
The coalescent: introduction
13
Oct
The coalescent: applications
16
Oct
Introduction to quantitative genetics: partitioning the genetic variance
Problem #3 assigned
18
Oct
Estimating variance components
20
Oct
Estimating variance components (continued)
23
Oct
Analyzing resemblance among relatives
Problem #3 due
25
Oct
Predicting the phenotypic response to selection; Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection
27
Oct
Evolutionary quantitative genetics
Problem #4 assigned
30
Oct
Mapping quantitative trait loci: principles
01
Nov
Mapping quantitative trait loci: software
03
Nov
Mapping quantitative trait loci: applications
06
Nov
Introduction to molecular population genetics
Problem #4 due
Project #2 assigned
08
Nov
The neutral theory of molecular evolution
10
Nov
Patterns of nucleotide and amino acid substitution
13
Nov
No class
15
Nov
Detecting selection on nucleotide polymorphisms
17
Nov
Examples of selection on nucleotide polymorphisms
20
Nov
Thanksgiving recess -- no classes
22
Nov
Thanksgiving recess -- no classes
24
Nov
Thanksgiving recess -- no classes
27
Nov
Tajima's D: principles and applications
Project #2 due
Problem #5 assigned
29
Nov
Evolution in multigene families
01
Dec
Introduction to Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA)
04
Dec
Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA)
Problem #5 due
Project #3 assigned
06
Dec
Nested clade analysis
08
Dec
Nested clade analysis (conclusion); Statistical phylogeography
13
Dec
Project #3 due