? Credit Points : 10  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : BIO-P-P02007

This course will introduce modern molecular phylogenetics in the general context of evolutionary genetic analysis. It will discuss problems and opportunities associated with molecular phylogenetics, different evolutionary models for nucleotide sequence data, and phylogeny reconstruction by a range of approaches. The use of phylogenetic approaches in evolutionary genetics studies will be discussed.

? This course is not available to visting students.

Home subject area

Postgraduate, (School of Biological Sciences, Schedule K)

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Block 3 only

? Contact Teaching Time : 5 hour(s) per week for 5 weeks

Increased understanding of Biological processes. Detailed learning outcomes will be provided later.

Assessed assignments 100%

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Dr Judith McQueen
Tel : (0131 6)50 5490
Email : Judith.McQueen@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Prof Andrew Leigh-Brown
Tel : (0131 6)50 5523
Email : A.Leigh-Brown@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/