Prerequisites: BIOS 829 or equivalent or permission.
Description: Principles and methodology of phylogenetic inference based on molecular characters (mainly DNA sequences). Principles of population genetics and analysis of microsatellite loci. Emphasis on project design, data analysis, and hypothesis testing. Students will acquire training on current computer programs for phylogenetic analysis.
Mon, Wed, Fri, 9 AM to 10:15 AM, 128 Manter Hall
Prerequisites: BIOS 204, and 201 or 301; BIOS 302 or parallel; or equivalent (or permission)
Description: Basic principles of phylogenetic inference with
emphasis on the application of phylogenetic hypotheses in biology and the biomedical
sciences. Focus on showing how inferences derived from phylogenetic trees can
be applied in different areas of biological investigation including systematics,
biogeography, conservation biology, molecular evolution, genome structure, epidemiology,
forensics, population biology, ecology, character evolution, behavior, and macroevolution.
Objective: students will understand how to use phylogenies
as working hypotheses for testing ideas in several areas of biology. Application
of phylogenies as interpretive tools will promote evolutionary thinking.
Classroom procedure: two lectures (70 min
each) per week plus a one-hour recitation. Lectures will provide the basic conceptual
tools. Recitation sessions involve structured discussions of current scientific
literature in a "cooperative learning group" environment.
"To discover, describe, and explain the diversity in the biological world." A forum for the discussion of systematic biology, established in the Fall of 1999. All faculty, graduate and undergraduate students interested in systematics are invited to participate of discussions of current and or landmark journal articles, manuscripts for submission, and work in progress. A web site and an email list are used to coordinate the weekly meetings. Participants are expected to lead at least one of the discussions during the semester. Topics are flexible and represent the interest of participants. Meetings are in 203 Manter Hall, every Wednesday from 12:30- 1:30 PM.
Meets every Friday in 118 Manter Hall, 12:30 - 1: 30 PM . Features invited speakers and our very own faculty and students. Everybody is welcome to attend.
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Curso16. Molecular phylogenetics: an update of new methodological developments (Nível: pós-graduação) (2003)Download powerpoint and pdf files: 2. Modelos (get Modeltest reference and see Modeltest website) 3. Bayesian inference (get supplemental material and MrBayes manual) or see Mr Bayes website 4. Genetic algorithms (get reprints: main and supporting information) ... For a complete list of phylogenetic programs see Felsenstein's software page |
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Ferramentas moleculares e estatísticas para estudos de estrutura de populações (2005)
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A five-week introductory minicourse for graduate students in Ecology and Evolution
Introduction to macroevolution: evolution above the species level. Macroevolution and phylogeny: taxonomic and systematic basis to study diversity and diversification. Principles of phylogenetic analysis: cladograms and trees, homology and homoplasy, phylogenetic inference, tracing character evolution. Origin of new species: species concepts, review of major models of speciation (allopatric and sympatric speciation). The fossil record: some geological fundamentals, taxonomy and evolution in the fossil record, fossils and phylogeny. Pattern and process in macroevolution: gradualism and saltation, selection and the evolution of novelty, rates of evolution, directions, trends, and progress. The evolution of biological diversity: patterns of origination and extinction, key adaptations, mass extinctions Development and evolution: ontogeny and phylogeny, heterochrony, developmental genetics and evolution, homology revisited
Molecular tools are currently being used in all major fields of the Biological Sciences. Gene sequence data are accumulating at an ever-increasing pace due to advances in molecular biology and biotechnology, and phylogenetic trees are routinely being constructed from these data. These phylogenies are being used by scientists working in quite different areas to help understand biological processes occurring at many levels of life's hierarchy. A survey of the current scientific literature will demonstrate that molecular biology, genetics, evolution, development, behavior, epidemiology, ecology, systematics, conservation biology, and forensics are but a few conspicuous examples of the many disparate fields conceptually united by the common knowledge, methods, and theories of molecular systematics. Phylogenies are used essentially in the same way in all of them: either by drawing inferences from the structure of the tree or from the way character states map onto the tree. This course is intended to convey the basic principles, methods, and applications of molecular systematics to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of the Biological Sciences.