• ECTS

    4 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

Description

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

During the module, we will discuss, based on articles, several evolutionary issues that are useful for Evo-Devo approaches: the question of homology, the question of the establishment and evolution of repeated structures, the genetic basis of development and the links between genome evolution and shape evolution. We will illustrate these notions from examples taken from metazoans and the green lineage, and will apply them to the scale of large current groups but also to populations.

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Objectives

- to know how to collect scientific information essentially in the field of life sciences (concepts, examples, approaches, methods) and to didacticize them for various audiences, with different communication tools

- know how to integrate different scales of study to answer the same problem in relation to biological interactions

- to know the techniques of developmental genetics and to analyze the results obtained with these techniques, to be able to relate the results of developmental genetics to knowledge of the evolution of organisms

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Knowledge control

Continuous assessment : 100%.

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