Bjarki Eldon (Institut für Mathematik, TU Berlin)

Single, and multiple loci, large offspring number population models

For many organisms the usual Wright-Fisher and Moran low offspring number population models are reasonable approximations. For some marine organisms (at least), this may not be the case, and one may need to consider large offspring number models, in which individuals can give rise to very many offspring, or on the order of the population size. The coalescent processes derived from the two classes of population models are very different. Examples of single, and multiple loci, population models will be discusses, and the implications large offspring number models have for inference of, for example, natural selection.