Course detail

LCF5151 - Conservation and Population Genetics in Forests Species


Credit hours

In-class work
per week
Practice
per week
Credits
Duration
Total
10
10
8
4 weeks
120 hours

Instructor
Demóstenes Ferreira da Silva Filho
Evandro Vagner Tambarussi

Objective
Present and discuss concepts related to Population Genetics and Conservation Genetics for tree species,
and the use and conservation of biodiversity. Discuss the theory and practice of new techniques in
biotechnology in order to assess genetic diversity. The discipline will also provide a better understanding
of the use of traditional and modern population genetics in sustainable forest management programs.
JUSTIFICATIVA

Content
Population Genetics: genetic structure of natural and fragmented populations, estimates of genetic parameters through molecular and quantitative markers. Molecular population genetics: allelic richness, private and rare alleles, observed and expected heterozygosity under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and Wright equilibrium: estimating genotypic and allelic frequencies in both genetic equilibria. Evolution of forest species: types of breeding systems and species evolution. Estimation of kinship coefficients in native forests: identical by descent (IBD) alleles and identical by state (IBS) alleles, their estimates and problems. Genetics applied to Forest Management: use of genetics in the practice of forest management. In situ and ex situ conservation: the different types of conservation and their issues. Genetic seed collection of forest species: application of molecular and statistical data to estimate the distance between mother trees for the collection of seeds in managed natural areas. Application of Bioinformatics and multivariate statistical analysis in the estimation of reproductive systems and inbreeding coefficients using the software R, FSTAT, SPAGeDi, and MLTR.

Bibliography
FRANKHAM, R.; BALLOU, J.D. & BRISCOE, D.A. Introduction to Conservation Genetics. Cambridge University Press. 2002.
SOLE-CAVA, A. M. Biodiversidade Molecular e genética da conservação. In: Matioli, S.R.. (Org.). Biologia Molecular e Evolução. São Paulo: Holos, 2001.
TAMBARUSSI, E.V.; SEBBENN, A. M. ; ALVES-PEREIRA, A.; VENCOVSKY, R.; CAMBUIM, J.; SILVA, A.M.; MORAES, M.A.; MORAES, M.L.T. Dipteryx alata Vogel (Fabaceae) a neotropical tree with high levels of selfing: implication for conservation and breeding programs. Annals of Forest Research ,DOI: 10.15287/afr.2017.842, 2017.
WRIGHT, A.J.; COCKERHAM, C.C. Selection with partial selfing. II. Family selection. Crop Science, v. 26, p. 261-268, 1986.
VENCOVSKY, R.; PEREIRA, M.B.; CRISÓSTOMO, J.R.; FERREIRA, M.A.J. Genética e melhoramento de populações mistas. In: NASS, L.L.; VALOIS, A.C.C.; MELO, I.S.; VALADARES-INGLIS, M.C. Recursos genéticos e melhoramento. Rondonópolis: Fundação MT, 2001, p. 231-281.
Leitura complementar: Periódicos
Additional reading: Journals
Nature Genetics; Genes and Development; Genetics; Cell; Molecular Cell; Trends in Genetics; Trends in Plant Sciences; Current Opinion in Plant Biology; Heredity; Genome Research; Annual Review of Genetics; Annual R. Plant Biology; Chromosoma; Crop Science; EMBO Journal; Molecular Biology and Evolution; Journal of Molecular Evolution; Mopecular Phylogenetics and Evolution; FEMS; Heredity; Journal of Molecular Biology; Molecular and General Genomics; Molecular-Plant Microbe Interactions; Mycologia; Mutation Research; Nature; Nucleic Acids Research; Plant Breeding; Plant Cell; Plant Journal; Plant Molecular Biology; Science; The Plant Cell; Theoretical and Applied Genetics; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA.