Introduction to the Coalescent Theory - Lecture 2
Delve into the intricacies of coalescent theory in this comprehensive lecture from the Third Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution. Explore key concepts such as coalescent variance, effective population size, and population structure. Examine models like the structured Wright-Fisher model and the two-deme model, and investigate the effects of migration rates. Learn about sex in evolutionary contexts, including hermaphroditism and self-fertilization. Discover the role of recombination in evolution, its backward-in-time perspective, and the ancestral recombination graph. Gain insights into simulating data, detecting recombination events, and understanding linkage disequilibrium. This in-depth presentation covers advanced topics in population genetics, providing a solid foundation for researchers and students in evolutionary biology, mathematics, and related fields.