Bio4010 Autumn 2005 – Program
Time and place: Wednesday at 12.15 – 145.00, in Room 3508, the Biology building.
Responsible: Asbjørn Vøllestad (AV) - telephone 22 85 46 40 - e-mail avollest@bio.uio.no
August 24
1. AV: Introduction to the course.
2. AV: Introduction to life history theory: what does these theories try to achieve? Based on chapter 1 in Stearns (1992). Read also Stearns (2000).
August 31
1. AV: Quantitative genetics
2. AV: Reaction norms
Seminar titles will be given to each and all of you - with dates for the presentations
September 7
1 + 2. AV: Trade-offs
September 14
1 + 2. Leif C Stige: Fitness and fitness estimates
September 21
Time 1 + 2. AV: Age and size at maturity.
Title for Essay 1 will be given.
September 28
October 5
1. AV: Progeny size and number.
2. Student presentations:
Synne F. Olsen: Einum &
Fleming 2000. Highly fecund mothers sacrifice offspring survival to
maximize fitness. Nature
405: 565-567.
Vebjørn Veiberg:
Berkeley et al. 2004. Maternal age as a determinant of larval growth
and survival in a marine fish, Sebastes
melanops. Ecology
85: 1258-1264.
Submission of Essay 1: details to be decided at a later date.
October 12
Guri Sogn Andersen: Krüger 2005. Age at first breeding and fitness in goshawk Accipiter gentilis. J Anim Ecol 74: 266-273.
Kirsten Kleveland: Forsyth et al. 2005. A substantial energy cost to male reproduction in a sexually dimorphic ungulate. Ecology 86: 2154-2163.
Gry Anett Lien: Munch & Conover 2004. Nonlinear growth cost in Menidia menidia: theory and empirical evidence. Evolution 58: 661-664.
Line Gustavsen: Munch & Conover 2003. Rapid growth results in increased susceptibility to predation in Menidia menidia. Evolution 57: 2119-2127.
October 19
1 + 2. Rune Halvorsen Økland: Life histories of Hylocomium splendens, a
boreal forest moss
October 26
1. Atle Mysterud: The phenology of rut in seasonal environments and its relation to reproductive effor in polygynous ungulates.
2. Student presentations
Silje Christine Heggelund Johnson: Sundström et al. 2005. Selection in increased intrinsic growth rate in coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch. Evolution 59: 1560-1569.
Anne Kristing Ehrlinger: Vorburger 2005. Positive genetic correlations among major life-history traits related to ecological success in the aphid Myzus persicae. Evolution 59: 1006-1015.
November 2
1. Hans Petter Leinaas. Title to
come.
2. Student presentations
Tea Turtumøygard: Kruuk et al. 2000. Heritability of fitness in a wild mammal population. PNAS 97: 698-703.
Tellef Jørgensen Holo: Lahdenperä et al. 2004. Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women. Nature 428: 179-181.
November 9
1. AV: Ageing and senescence
2. Student presentations
Krisitin Vesterkjær: Hendry et al. 2004. Adaptive variation in senescence: reproductive lifespan in a wild salmon population. Proc. R. Soc. London B. 271: 259-266.
Luisa Avila Jimenez: Reznick et al. 2004. Effect of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of senescence in guppies. Nature 431: 1095-1099.
November 16
1. AV: Life history invariants
2. Student presentation
Title for Essay 1 will be given.
November 23
No seminar planned
December 1
Submission of Essay 2: details to be given later.