Tagged: population genetics

Measuring population differentiation in R - The Atavism

David Winter • Aug 09, 2012 •

• my research,
• population genetics,
• sci-blogs

This is a little bit different than most posts here. I have a paper out today in Molecular Ecology Resources:  "mmod: an R library for the calculation of population differentiation statistics" (doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2012.03174.x). Looking around the web, there aren't many simple expositions of just what a "differentiation statistic" might be, and why the "modern measures of … Read More

You can’t ban redheaded sperm - The Atavism

David Winter • Jul 11, 2012 •

• genetics,
• population genetics,
• sci-blogs,
• teaching

It's the first week of semester two down here at Otago, which means I will helping with undergraduate labs for the first time this year. I suspect most students end up not liking me all that much, because I find my self teaching in the parts of the genetics program that undergrads like the least. Population genetics, as the name … Read More