Genome Evolution
Course
Department of Biology
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Lecturer: Itai Yanai
Teaching Assistant: Michal Levin
Course number: 136031
Winter
Semester, 2009
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Announcements: Exam takes place on February 9th at 9am (Mo’ed bet
March 16th) Students who wish to receive a summary of their grades on assignments
may email Michal mlevin@tx.technion.ac.il Essays have been added to the Domains, Regulation, Horizontal transfer,
and Networks lectures (only the Selfishness essay is missing at the moment) |
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Course
Material
- Introduction to Evolution and The Human
Genome
- Human Variation
- Molecular Clocks
- The Neutral Mutation Theory of Molecular
Evolution
- The Tree of Life and Phylogenetics
- Evolution by Genome Duplication
- Evolution by Gene Duplication
- Evolution of Protein Domains
- Evolution by Horizontal Transfer
- Evolution of Selfishness
- Evolution of Biological Networks
- Evolution of Genome Regulation