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L567 (2015): study questions for second exam. 0.5ContrasttheassumptionsandpredictionsofMuller’sRatchetandKondrashov’s hatchet.HowdoesMuller’sRatchetwork?HowdoesKondrashov’shatchetwork? 0.6Ifmutationsactindependently,howcouldyoufindfitnessatmutation-selection balance?(Youdon’tneedtodothemath,justindicatewhatmustbetrueat mutationselectionbalance.) 1. Briefly describe Stanley’s hypotheses for the preponderance of cross-fertilizing plants and animals. Compare his idea with Nunney’s idea. Why are these ideas considered “macroevolutionary”? 2. Contrast hard selection, soft selection, frequency-dependent selection, and densitydependent selection. How are they related to ideas concerning the maintenance of genetic polymorphism? Which one of these ideas are related to the tangled bank hypothesis and to “multiple-niche polymorphism” theory, and why? 3. Discuss the paper on the evolution of recombination rates by Burt and Bell (1987). Why do longer-lived species have more recombination? Why do domesticated species have relatively high rates of recombination? 4. What is the cost of males? Contrast the primary ecological theories for the maintenance of cross-fertilization in the face of this cost. 8. How is the Red Queen model conceptually related to the Rock Paper Scissors game? How could host-parasite coevolution select for recombination? 9. What is linkage disequilibrium (give a verbal and mathematical description)? 10. In general, what is the effect of recombination on linkage disequilibrium? Under what conditions would increased rates of recombination be favored by natural selection? 11. What is epistasis for fitness? Why does epistasis for fitness lead to linkage disequilibria? 12. What is run-away sexual selection? How does it generate linkage disequilibrium and genetic correlations? How would you test for the existence of genetic correlations generated by sexual selection? Do you think the selection experiments on stalk-eyed flies showed the expected correlated response in females to selection on stalk length in males? 13. Describe Kirkpatrick's model for sexual selection. What is meant by “a line of equilibria?” Does it seem reasonable, testable? How could sexual selection in the model lead to speciation? 14. What happens to additive genetic variation under directional run-away sexual selection? What models, if any, can explain the maintenance of additive genetic variation under strong female choice for male traits? 15 Describe the Hamilton and Zuk hypothesis. What is meant by condition-dependent mate choice? How is condition-dependent choice different from opposites-attract mate choice? Can opposites attract increase when rare in a population where conditiondependent choice is common? If so, would opposites attract go to fixation? Why or why not? 16. What is meiotic drive? How did meiotic drive figure into female choice of males in the stalk-eyed flies of Malaysia? What is cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS)? What is the effect of CMS spreading into a hermaphroditic plant population? 17. What is Hamilton’s rule? What does it mean with respect to the evolution of social behavior? How is the result by Taylor and Frank (1996) similar to Hamilton’s rule? In the Taylor and Frank model, the authors derived relatedness as the ratio of two covariances. What was the ratio? What does it mean? Give an example of how relatedness, defined in this way, can be low, even in a group of very close relatives. 18. In Templeton’s example of sickle-cell anemia, how does inbreeding and dominance affect the initial direction and outcome of natural selection? What is the meaning of the term “identical by descent”? Will populations evolve to the best possible phenotype in phenotypic space? 18.5. The Templeton paper (see web site) does not have an abstract. Write an abstract with no more than 300 words. 19. Describe the process of shifting balance. What are the three phases? What was the theory meant to explain? How does Wright’s shifting-balance view of evolution compare with Fisher’s thinking on evolution? 20. Write your own question on aspects of the material covered in this section of the course, and answer it. 21. What was the conceptual gist of the Zeh & Zeh paper on intergenomic conflicts and speciation rates in viviparous organisms? How would it explain the faster speciation rates in mammals compared to amphibians? 22. What is the conceptual gist of McPhail’s idea on the evolution of benthic and limnetic freshwater fish from marine ancestors? 23. How does the process of speciation work? 24. What is meant by "speciation by reinforcement"? In your view, is it likely to be general? Was the Drosophila data presented by Coyne and Orr consistent with speciation by reinforcement? Was the paper in Nature by Saetre et all a convincing case for speciation by reinforcement? Why or why not? 25. Using a two-locus, two-allele diploid model, show epistasis for fitness in a way that gives two adaptive peaks. Show how crosses between individuals at these peaks could lead to low-fitness hybrids. Similarly, show how different adaptive peaks might correspond to different environments, and how crossing individuals at these peaks might lead to low-fitness hybrids. What are the main differences between the shifting balance model of speciation and the Dobzhansky-Muller model of speciation? 26. What is effective population size? Why is it an important concept in evolutionary genetics? Show how sex-ratio bias and variation in offspring production affects Ne. 27. What is meant by "levels of selection"? Demonstrate your understanding of kin selection. How might kin selection explain the evolution of sterile castes? Why did Darwin consider the evolution of sterile castes to be an especially difficult problem? 28. Discuss the evolution of cooperation without kin selection. Use the prisoner's dilemma as guide (if it helps you). How is the outcome expected to be affected if the organisms interact repeatedly instead of only once? 29. Is there selection for speciation? 30. What is meant by "macroevolution"? Give an example of how selection on life history could affect marcoevolution (hint: the Jablonski example). 31. What did van Valen mean by the Red Queen hypothesis? Why did he suggest the hypothesis in the first place? Note that Van Valen's use was the first use of the Red Queen idea. 32. Write a brief review of the Saetre et al. paper. Recommend accept or decline, and give your reasons. 33. How does the Price equation capture within-group selection verses between-group selection? 34. Goldberg et al argued that species selection contributes to the persistence of outcrossing species in the Solanacea, even though there is a low level of transition from outcrossing to selfing (but not from selfing to outcrossing). What is the logic of the argument? 35. Describe the feedbacks (and how they work) between ecology and evolution as described in our analysis of Fisher’s fundamental theorem of natural selection.