2009 Armidale Animal Breeding Summer School: Advanced Topics in Selection Theory, Armidale, NSW, Australia

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University of New England, Armidale Animal Breeding Summer School

(3-6 Feb. 2009)

INSTRUCTOR:

Bruce Walsh, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. jbwalsh@u.arizona.edu

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Lecture 1 Basics of Population and Quantitative genetics
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Lecture 2 Introduction to linear models and linear algebra
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Lecture 3 Population Genetics of selection
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Lecture 4 Detecting Molecular Signatures of Selection
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Lecture 5 The univariate Breeder's Equation: Changes in means
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Lecture 6 Transient changes in the Mean, Changes in the variance
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Lecture 7 The Infinitesimal model and its extensions
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Lecture 8 Long-term selection response
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Lecture 9 Measuring univariate selection
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Lecture 10 Multivariate Selection
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Lecture 11 Measuring multivariate selection
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Lecture 12 Response in G
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Lecture 13 Comparison of G matrices, dimensionality of G
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Lecture 14 Index selection theory
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Lecture 15 Applications of Index selection
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