Demography of Birch Populations across Scandinavia
| Autor: | Sendrowski, Janek |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
birch
betula pubescens pendula betula pubescens betula pendula silver birch downy birch demography population structure distribution of fitness effects DFE dadi UMAP PCA ADMIXTURE polyDFE ice age glaciation tree boreal forest climate change adaption tetraploid diploid-tetraploid introgression Scandinavia genetic cluster pipeline snakemake bioinformatics reproducible population genetics postglacial population expansion demographic history FEEMS site-frequency spectrum SFS last glacial maximum LGM workflow python population expansion population growth EST-SFS 0-fold degenerate 4-fold degenerate maximum likelihood estimation MLE variant call format VCF single-nucleotide polymorphism SNP Bioinformatics (Computational Biology) Bioinformatik (beräkningsbiologi) |
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| Popis: | Boreal forests are particularly vulnerable to climate change, experiencing a much more drastic increase in temperatures and having a limited amount of more northern refugia. The trees making up these vast and important ecosystems already had to adapt previously to environmental pressures brought about by the repeated glaciations during past ice ages. Studying the patterns of adaption of these trees can thus provide valuable insights on how to mitigate future damage. This thesis presents and analyses population structure, demo- graphic history and the distribution of fitness effects (DFE) of the diploid Betula pendula and tetraploid B. pubescens across Scandinavia. Birches–being widespread in boreal forests as well as having great economical importance–constitute superb model species. The analyses of this work confirm the expectations on postglacial population expansion and diploid-tetraploid introgression. They furthermore ascertain the presence of two genetic clusters and a remarkably similar DFE for the species. This work also contributes with a transparent, reproducible and reusable pipeline which facilitates running similar analyses for related species. |
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