1st Leibniz MMS Days - Abstract

Eldon, Bjarki

Gene genealogies in highly fecund populations with skewed offspring distributions

Multiple merger coalescent processes, which model the random gene genealogy of a sample of DNA sequences from natural populations, have recently been suggested as appropriate for the analysis of population genetic data from highly fecund populations with skewed offspring distributions. I describe ongoing projects in which we develop models and inference methods for multi-loci data to 1) distinguish between different coalescent models; 2) identify loci under selection; 3) model selection acting on many loci simultaneously, and for this we need to develop multi-loci ancestral selection graphs.