Allele frequency dynamics in a pedigreed natural population.

ABSTRACT: A central goal of population genetics is to understand how genetic drift, natural selection, and gene flow shape allele frequencies through time. However, the actual processes underlying these changes-variation in individual survival, reproductive success, and movement-are often difficult to quantify. Fully understanding these processes requires the population pedigree, the set of relationships among all individuals in the population through time. Here, we use extensive pedigree and genomic information from a long-studied natural population of Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) to directly characterize the relative roles of different evolutionary processes in shaping patterns of genetic variation through time. We performed gene dropping simulations to estimate individual g

SUBMITTER: Chen N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6369762 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature