Practical on quantitative genetics for the 2023 edition of the Crash Course in Evolutionary Biology.
What sort of exercises do we want in this practical?
- Shows that many genes can produce continuous trait variation
- Show that bimodal populations can produce continuously spread offspring when hybridizing
- Show that the breeder's equation works with simulations
- Show an example of bivariate simulation
- Show that small-effect QTLs might go unnoticed
- Show that additive effects can emerge and break down under epistasis
- Some exercise with measuring heritability?
- Ask how the environment may be a source of variation too?