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...