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           09:00 - 14:00     IPM Combinatorics and Computing Conference 2017 (IPMCCC 2017)
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MATHEMATICS

May 16-18, 2017
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           10:00 - 11:00     Seminar
Spiraling Complexity: A Test of the Snowball Effect in a Computational Model of RNA Folding

School
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Abstract:
Genetic incompatibilities can emerge as a byproduct of genetic divergence. According to Dobzhansky and Muller, an allele that fixes in one population may be incompatible with an allele at a different locus in another population when the two alleles are brought together in hybrids. Orr showed that the number of Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities (DMIs) should accumulate faster than linearly—i.e., snowball—as two lineages diverge. Several studies have attempted to test the snowball effect using data from natural populations. One limitation of these studies is that they have focused on predictions of the Orr model, but not on i ...