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  text: 'The evolutionary processes that brought about today’s plethora of living
    species and the many billions more ancient ones all underlie biology. Evolutionary
    pathways are neither directed nor deterministic, but rather an interplay between
    selection, migration, mutation, genetic drift and other environmental factors.
    Hybrid zones, as natural crossing experiments, offer a great opportunity to use
    cline analysis to deduce different evolutionary processes - for example, selection
    strength. Theoretical cline models, largely assuming uniform distribution of individuals,
    often lack the capability of incorporating population structure. Since in reality
    organisms mostly live in patchy distributions and their dispersal is hardly ever
    Gaussian, it is necessary to unravel the effect of these different elements of
    population structure on cline parameters and shape. In this thesis, I develop
    a simulation inspired by the A. majus hybrid zone of a single selected locus under
    frequency dependent selection. This simulation enables us to untangle the effects
    of different elements of population structure as for example a low-density center
    and long-range dispersal. This thesis is therefore a first step towards theoretically
    untangling the effects of different elements of population structure on cline
    parameters and shape. '
alternative_title:
- ISTA Master's Thesis
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  full_name: Julseth, Mara
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  ama: Julseth M. The effect of local population structure on genetic variation at
    selected loci in the A. majus hybrid zone. 2023. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12800">10.15479/at:ista:12800</a>
  apa: Julseth, M. (2023). <i>The effect of local population structure on genetic
    variation at selected loci in the A. majus hybrid zone</i>. Institute of Science
    and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12800">https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12800</a>
  chicago: Julseth, Mara. “The Effect of Local Population Structure on Genetic Variation
    at Selected Loci in the A. Majus Hybrid Zone.” Institute of Science and Technology
    Austria, 2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12800">https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12800</a>.
  ieee: M. Julseth, “The effect of local population structure on genetic variation
    at selected loci in the A. majus hybrid zone,” Institute of Science and Technology
    Austria, 2023.
  ista: Julseth M. 2023. The effect of local population structure on genetic variation
    at selected loci in the A. majus hybrid zone. Institute of Science and Technology
    Austria.
  mla: Julseth, Mara. <i>The Effect of Local Population Structure on Genetic Variation
    at Selected Loci in the A. Majus Hybrid Zone</i>. Institute of Science and Technology
    Austria, 2023, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12800">10.15479/at:ista:12800</a>.
  short: M. Julseth, The Effect of Local Population Structure on Genetic Variation
    at Selected Loci in the A. Majus Hybrid Zone, Institute of Science and Technology
    Austria, 2023.
date_created: 2023-04-04T18:57:11Z
date_published: 2023-04-05T00:00:00Z
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degree_awarded: MS
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title: The effect of local population structure on genetic variation at selected loci
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