Evolution-Development

Evo-devo is an evolutionary approach to developmental genetics. This discipline seeks to shed light on the changes in developmental mechanisms that explain current and past morphological diversity, thus forming an important bridge between biology and paleontology.

During the module, we will discuss several evolutionary issues relevant to Evo-Devo approaches based on articles: the question of homology, the establishment and evolution of repeated structures, the genetic basis of development, and the links between genome evolution and form evolution. We will illustrate these concepts using examples from metazoans and the green lineage, and apply them to both large modern groups and populations.

- know how to collect scientific information, mainly in the field of life and earth sciences (concepts, examples, approaches, methods), and adapt it for teaching purposes for a variety of audiences, using different communication tools

- know how to integrate different scales of study to address the same issue related to biological interactions

- Understand developmental genetics techniques and analyze the results obtained using these techniques; be able to relate developmental genetics results to knowledge of the evolution of organisms.

Continuous assessment: 100%