Biology 3593B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conservation Genetics, Macroevolution, Microevolution
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Focus: distribution and mechanisms of rapid adaption of invasive species. Aims: understand invasive potential of species to identify how genetic processes and plasticity driven invasion patterns and to understand rapid adaptation to a new habitat. Topics: phylogeography of invasive species, adaptation and evolution on islands, conservation genetics of endanger species. Resources: scientific publications: nature, science, pnas, evolution, bmc evolutionary biology, molecular ecology. What is evolution: change in living things by descent with modification developmental change (in life of. Journal of evolutionary biology etc. organism) evolution (between generations): the evolution we"re observing is the change within a lineage of populations between generations. Adaptation: a feature of an organism enabling it to survive and reproduce in its natural environment better than if it lacked the feature. Modern synthesis: aka neo-darwinism; reconciliation of mendelian theory of genetics with darwin theory of. Speciation (lineage split and diverge) from earlier forms) Macroevolution (novel forms of life can be derived.
