Mini-symposium 10

Linkage and the limits to selection in experimental sexual populations

The advent of whole genome sequencing now allows us to examine the genetic basis of rapid adaptation in experimental populations with unprecedented precision. Most experimental evolution studies using largely asexual bacteria focus on fixed mutations with novel adaptation, while studies in polymorphic sexual animals have found frequency changes at a large number of loci. Recent mathematical treatments of rapid adaptation have focused on the dependence of the rates and patterns of evolution on the interaction between levels of standing variation, population size, recombination, and patterns of mutation. This symposium brings together theoreticians and experimentalists to discuss the assumptions and predictions of these models with an aim of uniting assumptions and predictions on one side with critical experimental test on the other hand.

Invited speakers

Nick Barton: Linkage and the limits to selection.

Dmitri Petrov: Population Genomics of Rapid Adaptation.

Organisers

Henrique Teotonio (CNRS/ENS, France) and Patrick Phillips (University of Oregon, Eugene, USA).