This dissertation investigates an old and fundamental question in evolutionary biology: how is adaptation maintained in highly heterogeneous environments? Adaptation in variable environments poses a …
Statistical and computational methods for detecting evolutionary processes in human genomic data have been going through rapid advances across multiple fields of study and timescales. …
Natural selection causes genetic variants that increase fitness to spread within a population. Individuals bearing such alleles will leave behind more descendants and those descendants …
Abstract Due to coastal development and a history of commercial hunting, diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) populations have declined and disappeared from parts of their range. …
Most mutations that occur in biological systems are deleterious. It is of fundamental interest to understand how natural populations can evolve to cope with this. …
In eukaryotes, DNA is first transcribed into precursor-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) which is then followed by extensive RNA processing events. One such event is RNA splicing, …