This page will be used to disseminate readings and data sets. Check
frequently!
April 1
Here is the reading for this week, in pdf format.
Barker JSF, Thomas RH (1987)
A Quantitative Genetic Perspective on Adaptive Evolution. In: Genetic
Constraints on Adaptive Evolution (ed. Loeschcke V), pp. 3-23. Springer-Verlag,
Berlin.
If you need a refresher on quantitative traits, look at the lecture
notes from Fish 444.
April 08
Here is Exercise 1,
in Excel format, to be used in class (right click on file, select "Save
Target As").
April 15
Here is Exercise 2 in
Excel format.
April 22
Here is the solution to Exercise
1 and Exercise 2 (with
corrected text).
Here are the three recommended readings in pdf format. (Scanned, and
slow to print).
Jacquard A (1983) Heritability:
One word, three concepts. Biometrics 39, 465-477.
Lewontin RC (1974) The
analysis of variance and the analysis of causes. American Journal of
Human Genetics 26, 400-411.
(Examines misuse of Quantitative Genetic estimates in human studies)
Klein TW, DeFries JC, Finkbeiner
CT (1973) Heritability and genetic correlation: Standard errors
of estimates and sample size. Behavior Genetics 3, 355-364.
(Useful for study design)
April 29
Reading for next week:
Roff DA (1997) Evolutionary
Quantitative Genetics. Chapman & Hall, New York. 493pp.
Ch 3: The Genetic Correlation.
May 13
Exel Exercises for this week:
Exercise 3
Response to selection
G Matrix
Heterosigma
Here is a really cool review paper on the use of G matrices in comparitive
quantitative genetics - nice explanations, and a good read!
Steppan SJ, Phillips PC, Houle
D (2002) Comparative quantitative genetics: evolution of the G matrix.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17, 320-327.
Reading for next week:
Shaw RG (1987) Maximum-Likelihood
approaches applied to Quantitative Genetics of Natural Populations.
Evolution 41, 812-826.
May 19
Link to the zipped file for DFREML
and Quercus. Right click and save.
May 27
Here are the excel files for line cross analyses: Jstmeans
and jstvars.
June 3
Here is the paper to accompany today's lecture;
Hard JJ, Bradshaw WE, Holzapfel
CM (1992) Epistasis and the genetic divergenec of photoperiodism
between populations of the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii.
Genetics 131, 389-396.