Outreach + Highlights

Dans ce chapitre, nous introduirons quelques concepts de base en génétique des populations et présenterons certaines approches méthodologiques essentielles à l'analyse des données des polymorphismes sanguins étudiés dans les populations humaines.

Biological invasions have profound impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and services, resulting in substantial economic and health costs estimated in the trillions of dollars. Preventing and managing biological invasions are vital for sustainable development, aligning with the goals of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference.

While the role of selection in divergence along the speciation continuum is theoretically well understood, defining specific signatures of selection in the genomic landscape of divergence is empirically challenging.

Testing the association between objects is central in ecology, evolution, and quantitative sciences in general.

In an effort to halt the global decline of large carnivores, reintroductions have become increasingly popular to establish satellite populations and reduce the risk of stochastic events.

Hybridization is recognized as an important evolutionary force, but identifying and timing admixture events between divergent lineages remains a major aim of evolutionary biology.

Physicians often observe that their patients can react differently to the same medical treatment: for some patients, the drug will prove inefficient, whereas for others, it might provoke side effects, sometimes rather serious.

In biomedical research, population differences are of central interest. Variations in the frequency and severity of diseases and in treatment effects among human subpopulation groups are common in many medical conditions.