Biodiversity Research Seminar Series (BRS)
BRS Nancy Chen: Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population
February 2, 2022, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
host: Otto Lab
Title: Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population
Abstract: There are now many beautiful examples of phenotypic evolution on ecological timescales. Nevertheless, technological challenges and limited availability of temporal genomic data have left a large gap in knowledge of short-term evolutionary dynamics at the genomic level. Here, we investigate the evolution of natural populations on short timescales using a 25-year genomic, phenotypic, and pedigree dataset in the Florida Scrub-Jay. We use the population pedigree to directly characterize different evolutionary processes shaping short-term allele frequency change, and we test for selection over specific life-cycle stages.
Topic: Biodiversity Research Seminar Series
Start Time: Feb 2, 2022 11:48 AM
Meeting Recording:
https://ubc.zoom.us/rec/share/NkV_RwWjmqAWyO0QbExwRLsj_AeT5ZCF-dKgFmLiY…
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