ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Evolution of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits
A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand and predict the evolution of phenotypic traits influenced by many genes, a.k.a. quantitative traits, which represent the majority of adaptive traits. For this, we require an accurate knowledge of the ‘genetic architecture’ of a trait, here defined as the statistical distribution of the effects of the genes on the phenotype. However, it has not been possible to firmly check theoretical predictions against empirical data, due to a lack of method to accurately infer genetic architecture. In this project, I will develop novel statistical methodology to accurately infer the genetic architecture of traits in the wild, by leveraging the…
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