BIO 373 -- Mechanisms
of Evolution -- Spring 2011
Course information
Professor Jackie Brown, Science 1204, x3096
Email: brownj(at)grinnell.edu
Check
my
work
calendar
for
appointment
times
Syllabus
Assignments
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week9 (lost to illness)
Week10
Week11
Week 12
Weeks 13-14 (and
finals week)
Programs for laboratory
Populus
Avida-ED -- (Mac
version has a glitch for recent OSX -- figure captions are impossible
to
read on graphs on main screen)
Powerpoint presentations
1 --Evolutionary thinking and HIV (Jan 24)
2 -- Evidence
for
evolution (Jan 26)
3 -- Studying selection
(finches) ( Jan 26)
4 -- Mutation (Jan 31)
5 -- Population genetics - HW, selection and
mutation (Feb 4,7)
6
- Drift and Migration (Feb 9, 11)
7 - Mauna Loa silverswords (Feb 14)
8- Multiple loci and sex (Feb 16,
18)
9- Quantitative genetics (Feb 21,
23)
10- Adaptive hypotheses
(March 4)
11 - Phylogenies (March 7, 11)
12- Sexual selection (March 16,18)
13 -- Speciation (April 11-15)
14 -- Molecular Evolution and the
neutral theory (April 20)
15 -- Evolution and genomics
(April 25-29)
16 -- Evolution and Development (May 4-6)
Papers for class discussion
Jan 26
Data sets
Grantdata.xls Finch morphology.xls
Clarkia_petal.xls
Videos
Peter
and Rosemary Grant - Darwin's Finches
Old exams (may cover different subjects)
Quiz 1 2011
Quizzes form Spring 2005 (Quiz = Exam)
Quiz 1
Quiz 1 retake
Quiz 2
Quiz 2 retake
Quizzes from Spring 2003
Quiz 1
Quiz 2
Exams from Spring 2001
Quiz 1
Quiz 3
Exams from Spring 1998
Exam I
Exam II
Exams from Fall 1999
Exam I
Exam II
LINKS OF INTEREST
Freeman
and
Herron
Evolutionary Analysis
Text site -- Site set up by textbook publishers -- contains review
questions and further reading
PopG
-- Joe Felsenstein's elegant little population genetics simulation.
MEGA -- Molecular
Evolutionary Genetic Analysis (free, Windows only)
Example data sets from
Nei and Kumar's Molecular Evolution
and Phylogenetics
NCBI-- Entry point for searches of the
sequence and protein database
TreeBase -- A database of phylogenetic knowledge
The Tree of Life Web
Project -- a collaborative web project to organize expert
phylogenetic knowledge
COMPARE -- Emilia Martins
programs for phylogenetic contrast analysis