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A Russian zoological museum filled with centuries-old specimens finds renewed relevance in the age of genetics.

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Mystery monkey: history of unique Xenothrix fossil revealed

A now-extinct monkey from Jamaica had South American roots, according to new DNA evidence.

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Stephen Hawking’s Wheelchair and Thesis Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction

Bids far exceeded expectations at the Christie’s auction, which also included items that once belonged to Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.

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Dear Colleagues,

Registration is open for Transmitting Science course “Introduction to
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics”

Instructors: Dr. Erik Postma (University of Exeter, UK) and Dr. Jesús
Martínez-Padilla (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain).

Dates: April 8th-12th, 2019, Barcelona (Spain)

Place: Capellades, Barcelona (Spain).

Course Overview:

Quantitative genetics uses the phenotypic resemblance among related
individuals to infer the role of genes and the environment in shaping
phenotypic variation.

By simultaneously using the resemblance among all individuals in the
pedigree, these methods provide more precise and accurate estimates
of genetic and non-genetic variance components (heritabilities and
genetic correlations). Furthermore, they allow for the estimation of
individual-level genetic effects (breeding values), and thereby the
inference of evolution.

In this course, we will cover everything from basic quantitative genetic
theory and statistics to advanced mixed model-based approaches. You
will learn how to estimate genetic variances and covariances in wild
and captive populations, and how to test for evolutionary change.

Along the way, you will be exposed to the main software packages, and
the R packages MCMCglmm and ASReml-R in particular, and you will learn
about their strengths and weaknesses.

You are strongly encouraged to bring your own data (if you have it),
which you will be able to work on during the course and which will allow
you to put the theory into practice.

More information:
http://www.transmittingscience.org/courses/genetics-and-genomics/introduction-evolutionary-quantitative-genetics/
or writing to courses@transmittingscience.org

With best regards

Sole

Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD
Scientific Director
Transmitting Science
www.transmittingscience.org

soledad.esteban@transmittingscience.org

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