BIOL 322 - Conservation Genetics

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2010 and alternate years

Prerequisite: BIOL 220 or permission of the instructor.A study of the central issues of population genetics and their application to species preservation and conservation. Topics include genetic surveys of rare or threatened species; population structure and dispersal; inferring population histories from genetic data; phylogenetics of threatened species’ groups; hybridization between species; the use of genetic data in captive breeding programs and the prosecution of endangered species legislation; and the use of biotechnologies, such as cloning.Cabe.