#  Genomic signatures of adaptive introgression 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 20, 2017** 

 03:00PM - 03:00PM EDT 

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 **Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street**  



 

 



 

[Rasmus Nielsen](http://www.nielsenlab.org/)  
Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, University of California, Berkeley

**Abstract:** Adaptive introgression is the transfer of beneficial alleles from one species to another through interbreeding. It is increasingly being recognized as an important process in evolutionary biology. I will discuss methods and theory relating to the identification of introgression, in particular the length distribution of introgressed fragments and patterns of linkage disequilibrium caused by introgression. I will also discuss several instances of adaptive introgression in humans, including altitude adaption in Tibet and cold adaption in Greenland.



 

 



 

 

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