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Topics in Evolutionary Dynamics
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