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NIMBioS Tutorial
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics 2015
Topic: Evolutionary quantitative genetics 2015
Meeting dates: August 10–15, 2015
Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Organizers:
Stevan J. Arnold, Integrative Biology, Oregon State Univ.
Joe Felsenstein, Genome Sciences, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Objectives: This tutorial reviewed the basics of theory in the field of evolutionary quantitative genetics and its connections to evolution observed at various time scales. Quantitative genetics deals with the inheritance of measurements of traits that are affected by many genes. Quantitative genetic theory for natural populations was developed considerably in the period from 1970 to 1990 and up to the present, and it has been applied to a wide range of phenomena including the evolution of differences between the sexes, sexual preferences, life history traits, plasticity of traits, as well as the evolution of body size and other morphological measurements. Textbooks have not kept pace with these developments, and currently few universities offer courses in this subject aimed at evolutionary biologists. There is a need for evolutionary biologists to understand this field because of the ability to collect large amounts of data by computer, the development of statistical methods for changes of traits on evolutionary trees and for changes in a single species through time, and the realization that quantitative characters will not soon be fully explained by genomics. This tutorial aimed to fill this need by reviewing basic aspects of theory and illustrating how that theory can be tested with data, both from single species and with multiple-species phylogenies. Participants learned to use R, an open-source statistical programming language, to build and test evolutionary models. Participants for this tutorial were graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty members in evolutionary biology.
Co-sponsor: American Society of Naturalists
Instructors:
Patrick Carter, Evolutionary Physiology, Washington State Univ., Pullman
Tyler Hether, Biological Sciences, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow
Adam Jones, Biology, Texas A&M Univ.
Emilia Martins, Biology, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
Brian O'Meara, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Tennessee
Liam Revell, Biology, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston
Michael Whitlock, Zoology, Univ. of British Columbia
The content of this tutorial will be similar to the tutorial held at NIMBioS in 2014. For more information about that tutorial, For information about the Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics 2014 tutorial held at NIMBioS, click here.
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics WordPress Site
Live Stream.
The tutorial was live streamed.
Playlist of online videos.
Summary Report. TBA
Evaluation report (PDF)
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