Genetic Analysis
This is an open-online course notes resource for students in Genetic Analysis (BIOR92) at the Lund University Biology Department. This is a work in progress, and will be under mdevelopment for a while as we iron things out, add new materials for the first module of the course, add new or enhanced animations/visuals, and get feedback from students. Please report any major issues, bugs, omissions to Colin Olito (colin.olito@biol.lu.se), but please also be patient as I continue to build this into a better resource.
Image use disclaimer: I have tried to ensure that all images I haven’t created myself are either in the public domain, or are licensed for free use for educational purposes, and to provide image credits correctly. If I have missed something, please me know. For a couple images I simply couldn’t find the original source and can’t remember if I made it or not (!) I am happy to correct or remove any mistakes.
This website is a compilation of notes and background information for my lectures on Population & Quantitative genetics in the M.Sc. level Genetic Analysis course (BIOR92) at Lund University. They provide extra content and background for my lectures, but are not a substitute for attending lectures. [Update, 2026]: I will be trying to add in some of the material from Bengt’s lectures in the 1st module of the course, but this will not keep up with the delivery of those lectures.
In class, I use a combination of powerpoint and whiteboard lectures to present the course material. This online resource should be viewed as online course notes providing background information, repetition, supplementary material, and hopefully some new intuition for the topics covered in class.
The site is organized according to the main topics covered in each unit.
I am an evolutionary geneticist with a special interest in understanding the evolution of angiosperm reproductive diversity and the evolutionary consequences of sex-specific selection for species without separate sexes. Most of the research in my lab is inspired by the outrageous diversity of flowering plant reproductive traits, mating systems, sexual systems, and ploidy variation. You can read more about my lab and research here