Monthly Archives: September 2013

The blossoming of Capsella rubella.

Posted on September 27, 2013 by cooplab

Yaniv’s Capsella article is the cover image of PLOS genetics Image Credit: Kim Steige Flowers of the selfing plant species, C. rubella. In this issue, Brandvain et al. identify blocks of ancestry inherited from the founders of this recently derived … Continue reading →

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Post on The Population Genetic Signature of Polygenic Local Adaptation

Posted on September 17, 2013 by cooplab

We (Jeremy and Graham) have a new arXived paper: “The Population Genetic Signature of Polygenic Local Adaptation” (arXived here). This us a cross post from Haldane’s sieve. Comments are welcome there. The field of population genetics has devoted a lot … Continue reading →

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Identification of Founding Haplotypes Reveals the History of the Selfing Species Capsella rubella out @ PLOS Genetics

Posted on September 13, 2013 by cooplab

Yaniv’s paper: Genomic Identification of Founding Haplotypes Reveals the History of the Selfing Species Capsella rubella is out @ PLOS Genetics. Congrats to all of the authors.

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couple of notes on fixation prob. of beneficial allele

Posted on September 9, 2013 by cooplab

There was a conversation on twitter about Haldane’s 2s approximation to the fixation probability of an allele, and how it related to the diffusion approximation of the same quantity. This followed from a blog post by Adam Eyre-Walker. I thought … Continue reading →

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