====== Topics in Evolutionary Dynamics ======

[[https://sites.google.com/a/polytechnique.org/francoismassol/home|François Massol]]

CNRS, Montpellier and Lille, France

===== Outline =====

This course will focus on evolutionary dynamics from the viewpoint of
adaptation. During the course, I will discuss the following topics:

Lecture 1: [[Adaptation and the concept of fitness]]
  * Basics of natural selection
  * The concept of fitness
  * Evolution in structured populations

Lecture 2: [[Phenotypic models]]
  * Game theory
  * Adaptive dynamics
  * Quantitative genetics

Lecture 3: [[Evolution in metapopulations]]
  * Kin selection and group selection
  * Computing fitness in metapopulations
  * Case study: The evolution of dispersal

Lecture 4: [[More than one trait]]
  * The biology of multiple traits
  * Adaptive dynamics and quantitative genetics for multiple traits
  * Case study: evolution of distribution margins with genetic correlations

===== Suggested Readings =====

==== Classics ====

Grafen A. (1984). Natural selection, kin selection and group selection. In: Behavioural Ecology: an
Evolutionary Approach (eds. Krebs JR & Davies NB). Blackwell Oxford, pp. 6284. [[http://users.ox.ac.uk/~grafen/cv/KandD2ed.pdf]]

Hofbauer J. & Sigmund K. (1990).Adaptive dynamics and evolutionary stability. Appl Math Lett, 3, 75-79. [[http://homepage.univie.ac.at/karl.sigmund/adaptivedynamics.pdf]]

Lenormand T. (2002). Gene flow and the limits to natural selection. Trends Ecol Evol, 17, 183-189.
[[http://www.ugr.es/~jmgreyes/gene%20Plow%20limit%20nat%20selection.pdf]] or 
[[http://www.cell.com/trends/ecologyevolution/abstract/S01695347(02)024977]]

Reeve H.K. & Sherman P.W. (1993). Adaptation and the goals of evolutionary research. Q Rev Biol, 132. [[http://www.ugr.es/~jmgreyes/Reeve.pdf]]

==== Case Studies ====

Duputié A., Massol F., Chuine I., Kirkpatrick M. & Ronce O. (2012). How do genetic
correlations affect species range shifts in a changing environment? Ecol Lett, 15, 251-259. [[http://tinyurl.com/kkgw4og]]

Massol F., Duputié A., David P. & Jarne P. (2011). Asymmetric patch size distribution leads to disruptive selection on dispersal. Evolution, 65, 490-500. [[http://tinyurl.com/mm8dsbs]]

===== Links for the groups =====

On using chemical kinetics to formalize population dynamics problems [[http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2060627.pdf]]

On epidemics on networks [[http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/virus-tissec.pdf]] and [[http://www.bio.utexas.edu/research/meyers/LaurenM/VolzProcB07.pdf]]
=====Venue and further information=====

[[http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=4634|ICTP-SAIFR site]]