The genetics of evolutionary change - lessons from Atlantic herring and Darwin’s finches

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Date: Tuesday 6 December 2022

Time: 14.00 – 15.00

Leif Andersson, professor of functional genomics at Uppsala University, visits the Stockholm University Department of Zoology to give a talk on genetic population structures within species.

Sill. Foto: Uwe Kils /Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin's finches or Galapagos finches. Darwin, 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2d edition. 1. (category) Geospiza magnirostris 2. (category) Geospiza fortis 3. Geospiza parvula, now (category) Camarhynchus parvulus 4. (category) Certhidea olivacea. /Wikimedia Commons

The topic of Department of Zoology seminar series in December is population genetics, with exampels from herring and Darwin's finches.

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Population genetics in herring are also studied at Stockholm University, within the research projects Investigation of herring spawning activity in the Stockholm Archipelago and Investigation of homing behaviour in locally spawning herring aggregations on the Swedish east coast.

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Last updated: November 1, 2022

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