Emergence of assortative mating in a two-loci stochastic population model

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titleEmergence of assortative mating in a two-loci stochastic population model
start_date2018/10/26
schedule11h30
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summaryAssortative mating is a mating pattern in which individuals with similar phenotype mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern. It may influence the evolutionary fate of a population, by provoking for instance the stopping of gene flow between subpopulations. But which evolutionary forces lead to the appearance of mating preferences in a population ? In this talk, by means of a stochastic individual based model of a varying size population, we will study under which conditions a population of individuals mating uniformly at random (without sexual preference) may acquire a sexual preference: assortative mating.
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