BIOPL 4824 - [Plant Gene Evolution and Phylogeny]

Spring. 1 credit.

Prerequisite: BIOMG 2810 and BIOMG 3300 or BIOMG 3320, or equivalents. Recommended prerequisite: BIOMG 3310. Offered alternate years. 12 lec.

J. J. Doyle.

Practical applications of molecular systematics/evolution for plant molecular biologists and other non-systematists. The course focuses on two basic issues: methods and principles for inferring relationships among genes and the use of data to hypothesize relationships among plants. Evolutionary patterns and processes of genes and gene families are discussed, as well as rates of sequence evolution, paralogy and orthology, the effects of recombination and concerted evolution of gene phylogenies, and the implications of using gene or allele phylogenies to infer organismal evolutionary patterns.