ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Hourly volume
15h
Description
The module addresses the theoretical and empirical advances of recent research in evolutionary genetics through a number of major issues:
- theme 1: genetic burden and evolution of reproductive systems: recombination, sex/asex, auto/allofecundation
- theme 2: kinship structures and their evolutionary consequences: kinship selection, group selection, evolution of cooperation, sex ratios
- theme 3: sustainable interactions between species: parasitism, mutualism, coevolution
- theme 4: traces of evolutionary history in genomes, genomics of adaptation.
Objectives
Have a clear vision of the theories underlying major issues in evolutionary genetics (mutations, evolution of reproductive systems and recombination, evolution of cooperation, parasitic and symbiotic interactions and their possible experimental tests, adaptation) and their application/testing with genomics tools.
Necessary prerequisites
"Students must have done population genetics (M1 module ""GE1""), statistics, and evolution in M1."
Knowledge control
100% continuous assessment