Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:4, Tt:0, Lb:0]
- Review of Basic concepts of Evolution.
- Population genetics. Advanced topics in H-W principle- Infinite
alleles, X-linkage, Models of selection (additivity, dominance,
overdominance, underdominance), viability selection, gametic
selection; Mutation, Gene flow, Genetic Drift, Effective population
size.
- Molecular Population genetics Neutral Theory, Coalescence and
genealogies. Molecular clock, tests of neutral theory. Molecular
Phylogenetics, QTL mapping.
- Origin and Evolution of Sex. Linkage disequilibrium and recombination.
Cost of sex and benefits. Sexual Conflict and Sexual Selection.
- Life History Evolution. Aging, Body Size and other life-history
related traits. Leslie Matrices, Euler-Lotka eqn. and the growth of
age-structured populations. Density dependent selection, frequency
dependent selection, Game theory and ESS. Behavioural evolution.
- Evolution of Humans.
- Evolution, culture and health.
- B. K. Hall and B. Hallgrimsson, Strickberger's Evolution, 4th
Edn., Jones and Bartlett (2008).
- S. Freeman and J. C. Herron, Evolutionary Analysis, 4th Edn.,
Benjamin-Cummings (2007).
- P. W. Hedrick, Genetics of Populations, 3rd Edn., Jones and
Bartlett (2005).
- D. L. Hartl and A. G. Clark, Principles of Population Genetics,
4th Edn., Sinauer Associates (2006).
