300120 VO Systems conditions for Evolution (2022S)
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Language: English
Examination dates
- Thursday 30.06.2022 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.7, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.010, Ebene 1
- Friday 15.07.2022 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 1.7, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.010, Ebene 1
- Wednesday 05.10.2022 09:45 - 11:15 Seminarraum 1.8, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.007, Ebene 1
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
The introductory lecture will be on Friday, March 4th.
The lectures will take place in presence.
- Friday 04.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 18.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 25.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 01.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 08.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 29.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 06.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 13.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 20.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 27.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 10.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 17.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 24.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
A written exam at the end will consist of 20 questions.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
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)
>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)
Examination topics
The topics of the lecture, and the required and discussed literature.
Reading list
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.
Association in the course directory
MES5, MZO W-4, MZO W-5, MZO4, MZO W3
Last modified: Mo 23.01.2023 14:09
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).