Syllabus

    

Date		Topic		Reading
March 26		Introduction; Hardy-Weinberg proportions		I.1-I.3
28		Multiple alleles, difft. sexes		I.4, I.6
30		Sex-linkage		I.7
2		Linkage and linkage disequilibrium		I.8
4		Natural Selection		II.1-II.2
6		" "		II.4, II.5
9		Polymorphisms and fitness		II.6-II.8
11		" " "		II.9-II.11
13		Kin, group and species selection		II.12
16		Mutation		III.1-III.3
18		Maintenance of deleterious mutants		III.4-III.6
20		Migration, Clines		IV.1-IV.11
23		" "		" "
25		Inbreeding in pedigrees		V.1-V.5
27		Regular systems of mating		V.10-V.12, V.14
30		Inbreeding depression		V.13
May 2		Genetic drift		VI.1-VI.4
4		Effective population size		VI.5-VI.7
7		Neutral mutation theory		VII.1-VII.2
9		Trees of genes		X.4-X.6
11		Trees of genes II -- the sequel		X.8
14		Molecular evolution		VII.7, VII.8
16		Drift and other forces		VII.4,VII.5,VII.8,VII.9
18		Drift and other forces		" " " "
21		Genetics of quantitative characters		IX.1-IX.5
23		Components of variance		IX.6-IX.9
25		Selection response		" "
28		HOLIDAY (Memorial Day; last day of Folk Life Festival)
30		Finding QTLs		(none)
June 1		Finding QTLs		(none)

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Homeworks will be assigned each week, to be turned in the next week.

Exams: none.

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Text: Theoretical Evolutionary Genetics, by Joe Felsenstein, publication to be arranged, hopefully about $25

The text is also available as a PDF that can be downloaded:
from this link

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Course web page: http://evolution.gs.washington.edu/gs562/2007/