Advancing waves and point processes in the geographic process of adaptation

Advancing waves and point processes in the geographic process of adaptation

Probability Seminar
Mar 9, 2011, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 332 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Peter Ralph, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis (Speaker)
As selective pressures on a species change and new mutations arise that allow the species to adapt, if the rate of migration across the species range is slow enough, various spatial patterns in the organisms' genomes will be left behind. One such pattern is the patchwork formed by mutations of different origin, which is related to a simple, classical Poisson process model of crystalization going...