The EABC sponsors a seminar series on the interesting and complex biological phenomena of evolutionary trade-offs, featuring phenotypic plasticity, life history evolution, and pleiotropy. These phenomena provide an intuitive entrance into the unexpected consequences found in the genotype-phenotype map.
Four seminars comprise this seminar series. Three were presented in early October, 2003, while a fourth will be presented in January, 2004. For each seminar a brief description of the speaker and the presentation are provided below. Additionally, the video (streaming) of each presentation is available.
"The Evolution of Complex Phenotypes" [Oct. 2, 2003]
-Massimo
Pigliucci,
U. of Tennessee-Knoxville
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"p1 Maize Locus Pleiotropy" [Oct. 7, 2003]
-Tom
Peterson, Iowa State University
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"The
Evolution of Trade-Offs: Quantitative Genetics meets Optimality Theory"
[Oct. 9, 2003]
-Derek
Roff, U. of
California-Riverside
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"Pleiotropic Effects of the psbA
Chloroplast Gene in s-Triazine Resistant Plants" [Jan. 15, 2004]
-Jack
Dekker, Iowa State University
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the SEMINAR VIDEO on your computer
phenotypic plasticity: the capacity for marked variation in the phenotype as a result of environmental influences on the genotype during development
pleiotropy: the phenomena of a single gene being responsible for a number of disticnt and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects; a situation in which a single allele may affect an entire series of traits.
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Artwork credit: J.A. Spelman, ca. 1920, "Sawbill Lake" in
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