Much of evolutionary biology attempts to explain why the phenotypes of local populations have diverged from a common ancestral type. It is often tempting to explain the observed pattern of differentiation by natural selection, but this often lacks scientific justification, because random genetic drift i.e. the gradual change of allelic frequencies due to random sampling of alleles from parents to offspring can cause striking phenotypic differentiation, being arguably a simpler and a more eloquent explanation. Random genetic drift needs to be ruled out as an explanation to argue for a scenario of phenotypic differentiation based on natural selection. The rate of random drift in a study system can be measured by using neutral DNA marker...
Association analysis has become common praxis in plant genetics for high-resolution mapping of quant...
This thesis which consists of an introduction and four peer-reviewed original publications studies t...
The number of genome sequences available for different pathogens has in- creased dramatically over ...
Predicting evolutionary outcomes and reconstructing past evolutionary transitions are among the main...
Spatial differentiation in phenotypic traits is commonly observed in the wild, but both the proximat...
In this thesis we use the framework of adaptive dynamics and bifurcation analysis to study evolution...
The context and motivation for this thesis is gene mapping, the discovery of genetic variants that a...
Multienvironment trials (MET) are carried out every year in different environmental conditions to ev...
Due to the advent of new sequencing technologies and high-throughput phenotyping an almost unlimited...
The search for genes involved in selection and adaptation has become a main research subject in evol...
Processes of Darwinian evolution are dynamic, nonlinear, and underly fluctuations. A way to analyze ...
Embryonic development has amazed scientists for centuries. Many reasons have been suggested for the ...
In the era of genomics, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have become the method of choice for...
Summary of thesis: In age-structured populations, subject to environmental and demographic stocha...
One of the main questions in evolutionary biology is what causes genetic differentiation among popul...
Association analysis has become common praxis in plant genetics for high-resolution mapping of quant...
This thesis which consists of an introduction and four peer-reviewed original publications studies t...
The number of genome sequences available for different pathogens has in- creased dramatically over ...
Predicting evolutionary outcomes and reconstructing past evolutionary transitions are among the main...
Spatial differentiation in phenotypic traits is commonly observed in the wild, but both the proximat...
In this thesis we use the framework of adaptive dynamics and bifurcation analysis to study evolution...
The context and motivation for this thesis is gene mapping, the discovery of genetic variants that a...
Multienvironment trials (MET) are carried out every year in different environmental conditions to ev...
Due to the advent of new sequencing technologies and high-throughput phenotyping an almost unlimited...
The search for genes involved in selection and adaptation has become a main research subject in evol...
Processes of Darwinian evolution are dynamic, nonlinear, and underly fluctuations. A way to analyze ...
Embryonic development has amazed scientists for centuries. Many reasons have been suggested for the ...
In the era of genomics, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have become the method of choice for...
Summary of thesis: In age-structured populations, subject to environmental and demographic stocha...
One of the main questions in evolutionary biology is what causes genetic differentiation among popul...
Association analysis has become common praxis in plant genetics for high-resolution mapping of quant...
This thesis which consists of an introduction and four peer-reviewed original publications studies t...
The number of genome sequences available for different pathogens has in- creased dramatically over ...