Inferring Adaptive Landscapes from Phylogenetic Trees

Inferring Adaptive Landscapes from Phylogenetic Trees

Dec 15, 2009, 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM | 001 (annex) Campbell Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Carl Boettiger, UC Davis, Dept. Ecology and Evolution
How many adaptive peaks underly the evolution of a particular set of phenotypic traits? At what rate do transitions occur between these peaks? What factors are responsible for the rapid diversification of character traits in some clades while others remain virtually unchanged? Readily available genomic data and increasingly powerful computational resources have opened the door...