Search for dissertations about: "coalescent process"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words coalescent process.

  2. 1. Genetic variation in natural populations: a modeller's perspective

    Author : Marina Rafajlovic; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; coalescent process; site frequency spectrum; multiple paternity; dominant clone; divergent selection;

    Abstract : Thanks to advances in genome sequencing, empirical patterns of within- and between-species genetic variation are readily available. By studying these patterns much has been learned about the evolutionary histories of species. But the causes and consequences of different evolutionary histories are still difficult to tell apart. READ MORE

  4. 2. Hybridization and Evolution in the Genus Pinus

    Author : Baosheng Wang; Xiao-Ru Wang; Sally Aitken; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Adaptation; biogeography; coalescent simulation; cytoplasmic genome; demographic history; genetic diversity; hybridization; migration; Pinus; population structure; selection; speciation; evolutionär genetik; evolutionary genetics;

    Abstract : Gene flow and hybridization are pervasive in nature, and can lead to different evolutionary outcomes. They can either accelerate divergence and promote speciation or reverse differentiation. The process of divergence and speciation are strongly influenced by both neutral and selective forces. READ MORE

  5. 3. Species Delimitation and Phylogenetic Relationships. A study of Silene sections Atocion and Cryptoneurae

    Author : Zeynep Aydin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Caryophyllaceae; Silene; Section Atocion; S. ertekinii; S. cryptoneura; S. aegyptiaca; SystematicsPhylogenetics; Species delimitation; Multispecies coalescent; Marginal likelihood; Species tree; DISSECT.;

    Abstract : Abstract The existence of conflicting genealogies of different genes through the evolution of species complicates the inference of phylogenetic relationships. The Multispecies Coalescent (MSC) model provides a theoretical background that account for the stochasticity in the genealogical process, thus providing systematists with a potentially objective way of testing alternative hypotheses of putative species. READ MORE

  6. 4. Asymptotics, weak convergence and duality in population genetics

    Author : Martina Favero; Henrik Hult; Alison Etheridge; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers on asymptotic results and stochastic duality for some processes in mathematical population genetics. The focus is on Wright-Fisher diffusions and coalescent processes, which model, respectively, the evolution of frequencies of genetic types and genealogies in a population,and play a key role in inference on genetic data sets. READ MORE

  7. 5. Genome Divergence in Progress - a population genetic analysis of the allopolyploid Arabidopsis suecica and its maternal parent A. thaliana

    Author : Mattias Jakobsson; Biologiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; cytogenetik; Genetik; cytogenetics; Genetics; sequence polymorphism; microsatellites; population structure; polyploidy; single origin; Arabidopsis thaliana; Arabidopsis suecica; genome evolution; evolutionary history; Plant genetics; Växtgenetik;

    Abstract : The evolutionary history of the allotetraploid Arabidopsis suecica and its maternal parent Arabidopsis thaliana is analyzed in the thesis in terms of genetic variation in the natural populations of the two species. The earliest phase of the speciation event in which the genomes of A. thaliana and A. READ MORE