PřF:Bi7150 Mechanisms of Microevolution - Course Information
Bi7150 Mechanisms of Microevolution
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Miloš Macholán, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Miloš Macholán, CSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Miloš Macholán, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Prerequisites
- Bi3060 Basic genetics && Bi4010 Essential molecular biology
Completion of Bi8150 Evolutionary Biology - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Zoology (programme PřF, N-ZOL)
- Course objectives
- This course should render basic information on the genetic structure of natural populations as well as on underlying evolutionary mechanisms and processes. It is designed both as an extension of Evolutionary Biology and as a prerequisity for the follow-up Molecular Ecology.
- Learning outcomes
- The graduate will be able to understand basic principles of evolutionary mechanisms acting on the population level as a footing for practical uasage of up-to-date molecular-genetic methods of analysis of genetic variation in natural populations.
- Syllabus
- 1. Genetic variation in natural populations: Hardy-Weinberg principle, linkage disequilibrium
- 2. Sources of variation: mutation, recombination, gene flow, non-random mating
- 3. Natural selection
- 4. Interactions of selection and other evolutionary forces, balancing selection
- 5. Random processes in populations
- 6. Molecular evolution
- 7. Principles of quantitative genetics
- Literature
- recommended literature
- NIELSEN, Rasmus and Montgomery SLATKIN. An introduction to population genetics : theory and applications. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates, 2013, xii, 287. ISBN 9781605351537. info
- HARTL, Daniel L. and Andrew G. CLARK. Principles of population genetics. 4th ed. Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, 2007, xv, 652. ISBN 9780878933082. info
- TEMPLETON, Alan Robert. Population genetics and microevolutionary theory. 1st ed. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2006, x, 705. ISBN 9780471409519. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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