The Population-Genetic Environment - Lecture 1

The Population-Genetic Environment - Lecture 1

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Most Demographic Deviations From the Standard Model Cause Ne to be the Census Number

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Most Demographic Deviations From the Standard Model Cause Ne to be the Census Number

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The Population-Genetic Environment - Lecture 1

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  1. 1 Start
  2. 2 Introduction
  3. 3 Preface
  4. 4 Mathematical Theory and Scientific Understanding
  5. 5 Population Genetics and Evolutionary Hypotheses
  6. 6 Random Genetic Drift at a Neutral Locus is Inversely Proportional to the Effective Population Size
  7. 7 Buri's Big Drift Experiment
  8. 8 Most Demographic Deviations From the Standard Model Cause Ne to be the Census Number
  9. 9 Genetic Hitch-hiking Via Selective Sweeps Depresses Ne Below the Actual Census Size
  10. 10 Allele-Frequency Trajectories for Mutations in Replicate Experimental Yeast Populations
  11. 11 Selection Against the Constant Background Rain of Deleterious Mutations Further Depresses N.
  12. 12 The Concept of Effective Neutrality
  13. 13 Probability of Fixation of a New Mutation
  14. 14 Negative Scaling of N with Organism Size Defines the Range of Mutations Discernible by Selection
  15. 15 The Drift-Barrier Hypothesis
  16. 16 Drift Barriers in Biology
  17. 17 Evolution of Mutation Rates
  18. 18 Quasi-Equilibrium Mutation Rates Resulting From Deleterious-Mutation Load
  19. 19 Analysis of Genome Stability with a Mutation-accumulation Experiment
  20. 20 Mutation in Small vs. Large Genomes
  21. 21 Mutation-accumulation Studies Across the Tree of Life
  22. 22 Drake's 1991 Law for Mutation-Rate Evolution Revisited
  23. 23 Evaluation of the Drift-Barrier Hypothesis
  24. 24 Inverse Scaling Between the Genome-wide Deleterious Mutation Rate and the Effective Population Size
  25. 25 The Three Molecular Lines of Defense Against Mutation
  26. 26 Polymerase Error Rates Are Magnified in Enzymes Involved in Fewer Nucleotide Transactions
  27. 27 Evolution of Recombination Rates
  28. 28 Inverse Scaling of the Recombination Rate / Physical Distance and Genome Size is a Natural Outcome of "One Crossover / Chromosome Arm" Rule
  29. 29 Relative Magnitudes of Recombination c and Mutation u Rates Per Nucleotide Site
  30. 30 Reduced Levels of Variation in Regions of Low Recombination
  31. 31 Summary
  32. 32 Q&A
  33. 33 Thank You

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