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SUMMARY:Genealogies with recombination in spatial population genetics - Ve
 ber\, A (CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique)
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:Co-author: Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford) \n\nDiscret
 e or continuous\, the spatial structure of a population has an effect on t
 he evolution of its genetic diversity. In recent studies\, the random proc
 ess of recombination (by which certain portions of a chromosome of interes
 t are inherited from one's father and the complement from one's mother) ha
 s been used to reconstruct the recent past of a population. This reconstru
 ction is based on the properties of the genealogical trees corresponding t
 o such populations. We shall consider two examples (in continuous space) i
 n which it is possible to use the information left by recombination to inf
 er quantities such that the dispersal rate of a gene\, or to test the pres
 ence of rare but recurrent catastrophes. (Partially supported by the Europ
 ean project INTEGER).\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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