Causes and Consequences of Inclusive Inheritance

Session

Session 5

7 Nov 2019, 16:30

Lecture Hall (MPI for Evolutionary Biology)

18. Keynote: How do paternal and maternal effects coevolve?

Bram Kuijper

07/11/2019, 16:30

19. Environmental variation mediates the evolution of anticipatory parental effects

Martin Lind

07/11/2019, 17:00

Environments vary over time and if this variation is predictable, environments that are similar across generations should favour evolution of anticipatory parental effects to benefit offspring. In contrast, the absence of correlation between parental and offspring environments should select against parental effects. However, experimental evidence is scarce. We investigated the evolution of...

20. Understanding the contribution of DNA methylation variation to local adaptation

Konstantinos Sagonas

07/11/2019, 17:15

The capacity of different species to respond to a given selective environment often varies. While nucleotide diversity has long been recognised as the sole predictor of species and populations potential to adapt, current evidence suggest that populations or species may compensate for low genetic diversity through plastic responses. A possible heritable non-genetic mechanism underlying...

21. The chromatin accessibility landscape in the brain of a migratory songbird

Juan Lugo Ramos

07/11/2019, 17:30

Co-Authors: Gillian Durieux, Miriam Liedvogel
Bird Migratory behaviour depend on adaptations optimized for flight, timing, navigation and fuel allocation. The heritability of these adaptations has been shown with classical approaches of crossbreeding experiments suggesting that the genetics of migration rely on few genes with large effects. However, studies with candidate genes and population...