Molecular ecology is concerned with applying evolutionary and population genetics to traditional ecological questions (species diagnosis, relationship of individuals, population assignment, and adaptive evolution). It covers a broad field of studies based on integration of genetics and Darwinian evolution, called the 'modern synthesis'. This field attempts to account for evolution in terms of changes in gene and genotype frequencies within populations and the processes that convert the variation within populations into more or less permanent variation between species. In the last years, massive infusion of the molecular data provided us unique new insight into the evolutionary forces at the genome level. The aim of the course is to introduce the basic principles of inheritance, population genetic theory and new genomic approaches. The available molecular data and approaches to their analysis are described.
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Freeland, K., Peterson S. D., Kirk., H. (2011). Molecular Ecology (2nd Edition).
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