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300120 VO Systems conditions for Evolution (2025S)
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Language: English
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Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- N Friday 07.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 14.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 21.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 28.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 04.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 11.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 02.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 09.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 16.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 23.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 30.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 06.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 13.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 20.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 0.005, Ebene 0
- Friday 27.06. 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 12-15 questions , addressing taught material.
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, MZO4, MZO W3
Last modified: Fr 17.01.2025 14:46
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).