Date:
Monday, March 20, 2017, 3:00pm
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
Rasmus Nielsen
Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, University of California, Berkeley
"Genomic Signatures of Adaptive introgression"
Abstract: Adaptive introgression is the transfer of beneficial alleles from one species to another through interbreeding. It is increasingly being recognized as an important process in evolutionary biology. I will discuss methods and theory relating to the identification of introgression, in particular the length distribution of introgressed fragments and patterns of linkage disequilibrium caused by introgression. I will also discuss several instances of adaptive introgression in humans, including altitude adaption in Tibet and cold adaption in Greenland.
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