Course Content: The students will hear introductory and summary lectures, read research and review papers, and discuss together and with the teacher the following topics: Application of molecular tools in ecology and biodiversity research, including (but not restricted to) strategies to obtain molecular data, (computational) analytical tools for molecular data in ecology, genetic analyses of single and multiple populations, genomics, phylogeography, behavioural ecology and conservation genetics, population genetics, use of molecular markers in ecology, molecular and adaptive radiation, molecular identification of species, individuals and sex, and molecular ecology of aquatic microbes.
