BIOL4397 - Evolution of Development

 Lecture 15 - The Genetic Basis of Adaptation

Slides [pdf]

Required Reading

  • Stern DL (2000) Evolutionary developmental biology and the problem of variation. Evolution 54: 1079-1091. [pdf]

Recommended Reading
  • Orr HA (1998) The population genetics of adaptation: the distribution of factors fixed during adaptive evolution. Evolution 52: 935-949. [pdf]

  • Weatherbee SD, et al. (1999) Ultrabithorax function in butterfly wings and the evolution of insect wing patterns. Current Biology 9: 109-115. [pdf]