Universität Wien

300120 VO Systems conditions for Evolution (2023S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 30 - Biologie
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Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

The course takes place in presence only.

  • Freitag 03.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 10.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 17.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 24.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 31.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 28.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 05.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 19.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 26.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 02.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 09.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 16.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 23.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
  • Freitag 30.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The aim of this course is to address the question "what are the organismal properties that allow organisms to respond to selective pressure and evolve"?
We will introduce evolutionary process and discuss the structure of the genotype-phenotype mapping (essentially developmental and physiological structure) which makes organisms evolvable - such as robustness, modularity, mutation rate, phenotypic plasticity, context dependency of genetic effects etc. Furthermore, the approaches to study these phenomena will be explained based on the seminal literature in the field. (which is required reading in the course).

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

A written exam at the end will consist of 20 questions.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The grading criterion is :
>50% of the maximum points reached for the passing grade (4), higher grades are achieved at equal intervals (>62.5% for 3, >75% for 2, >87.5% for 1)

Prüfungsstoff

The topics of the lecture, and the required and discussed literature.

Literatur

Waddington, C. H. (1942). Canalization of development and the inheritance of acquired characters. Nature, 150(3811), 563-565.

Houle, D. (1992). Comparing evolvability and variability of quantitative traits. Genetics, 130(1), 195-204.

Schuster, P., Fontana, W., Stadler, P. F., & Hofacker, I. L. (1994). From sequences to shapes and back: a case study in RNA secondary structures. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 255(1344), 279-284.

Wagner, G. P., & Altenberg, L. (1996). Perspective: complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution, 50(3), 967-976.

Dawkins, R. (1997). Ch. 7 Kaleidoscopic Embryos. In R. Dawkins. Climbing mount improbable (pp. 224-255 ). WW Norton & Company.

Kirschner, M., & Gerhart, J. (1998). Evolvability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(15), 8420-8427.

Rutherford, S. L., & Lindquist, S. (1998). Hsp90 as a capacitor for morphological evolution. Nature, 396(6709), 336-342.

Gibson, G., & Wagner, G. (2000). Canalization in evolutionary genetics: a stabilizing theory? BioEssays, 22(4), 372-380.

Hendrikse, J. L., Parsons, T. E., & Hallgrímsson, B. (2007). Evolvability as the proper focus of evolutionary developmental biology. Evolution & development, 9(4), 393-401.

Hansen, T. F., & Houle, D. (2008). Measuring and comparing evolvability and constraint in multivariate characters. Journal of evolutionary biology, 21(5), 1201-1219.

Wagner, A. (2008). Robustness and evolvability: a paradox resolved. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275(1630), 91-100.

Jablonski, D. (2020). Developmental bias, macroevolution, and the fossil record. Evolution & development, 22(1-2), 103-125.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

MES5, MZO W-4, MZO W-5, MZO4, MZO W3

Letzte Änderung: Mi 04.10.2023 15:48