BioEnv-seminarium: ”Predicting adaptation on micro- and macro-evolutionary scales”
Naturvetenskap & IT
Lunchseminarium med David Berger, forskare vid Institutionen för ekologi och genetik, Uppsala universitet
Lunchseminarium med David Berger, forskare vid Institutionen för ekologi och genetik, Uppsala universitet
Kort sammanfattning (på engelska)
Whether or not evolution is repeatable is a longstanding question in biology with important implications for both theoretical and applied problems. In this talk I first discuss our ability to predict (mal)adaptation and short-term evolutionary potential from genomic data using an example from a cosmopolitan insect pest on legume crops. In the second part of the talk, I focus on predicting long-term evolutionary responses using examples of wing shape evolution in dipteran flies, where deep macroevolutionary patterns can be predicted from contemporary estimates of genetic variation within single species. Taken together, the results highlight that the accuracy of evolutionary prediction has a complex relationship with time; paradoxically, adaptation can be hard to forecast over short time scales but may yet remain predictable over deep macroevolutionary time.