Effective population size in insects

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Bruno Vieira | @bmpvieira

Phd Student @ QMUL

Bioinformatics and Population Genomics

Supervisor:
Yannick Wurm | @yannick__

© 2014 Bruno Vieira CC-BY 4.0

Number of Individuals vs Effective Pop. Size

giant nest 1 giant nest 2 queen ant queen bee

lipsmc
Li 2011

Dictyoptera

dictyoptera

Goal

Run PSMC across a wide range of social insects and their solitary relatives

From: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/WeaverAntDefense.JPG From: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Honeybee_landing_on_milkthistle02.jpg

From: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Coptotermes_formosanus_shiraki_USGov_k8204-7.jpg From: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Bush_Cockroach.jpg

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Acknowledgements:

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