Gustavo Valadares Barroso

@gvbarroso
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Computational evolutionary biologist. Former poker player, currently studying chess.
websitehttps://gvbarroso.github.io/
githubhttps://github.com/gvbarroso
Gustavo Valadares BarrosoApr 27, 2023

Here we are. Five years in the making, the final chapter of my PhD with Julien Dutheil is finally published.

The landscape of nucleotide diversity in Drosophila melanogaster is shaped by mutation rate variation:

https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.267/

Our main result is in the title of the paper. We then spend 22 pages to convince ourselves that it holds, and to explain why.

The landscape of nucleotide diversity in Drosophila melanogaster is shaped by mutation rate variation

Gustavo Valadares BarrosoDec 10, 2022
Laurent ExcoffierDec 5, 2022
Our paper on "The Impact of Genetic Surfing on Neutral Genomic Diversity" is out in MBE
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac249
with @StephanPeischl and, above all, Flavia Schlichta!
Impact of Genetic Surfing on Neutral Genomic Diversity

Abstract. Range expansions have been common in the history of most species. Serial founder effects and subsequent population growth at expansion fronts typicall

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