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SUMMARY:OEB Special Seminar
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<a data-url="http://www.nielsenlab.org/" href="http://www.nielsenlab.org/" title="Rasmus Nielsen"><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="777a02cb-86d0-4c1b-9724-1d66be07cc35" data-align="left" alt="Rasmus Nielsen" data-view-mode="hwp_small"></drupal-media>Rasmus Nielsen</a><br>Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, University of California, Berkeley<br>"<em>Genomic Signatures of Adaptive introgression</em>"</p><p>	<strong><!--break-->Abstract:</strong> Adaptive introgression is the transfer of beneficial alleles from one species to another through interbreeding.   It is increasingly being recognized as an important process in evolutionary biology.  I will discuss methods and theory relating to the identification of introgression, in particular the length distribution of introgressed fragments and patterns of linkage disequilibrium caused by introgression.  I will also discuss several instances of adaptive introgression in humans, including altitude adaption in Tibet and cold adaption in Greenland. </p>
LOCATION:Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20170320T190000Z
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