From jw663 at cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 22 20:28:28 2010 From: jw663 at cam.ac.uk (Jamie Walters) Date: Fri Oct 22 20:29:15 2010 Subject: [HELICONIUS] Fwd: other: gene flow in insects References: <20101022095811.5DC0B6853E@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca> Message-ID: <8169A6FC-1C64-430E-921E-A1EF48266720@cam.ac.uk> With apologies to anyone receiving this twice, my sense is that such data sets as are being sought here exist for Heliconius. I know these folks from Cornell and think highly of them. I'm sure they'd appreciate any assistance they can get. Thanks, Jamie James R. Walters, Ph.D. NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow Jiggins Group Zoology Department University of Cambridge jw663@cam.ac.uk w: 01223-336644 m: 07544-256000 Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca > Date: October 22, 2010 10:58:11 AM BST > To: jrw47@cornell.edu > Subject: other: gene flow in insects > Reply-To: as2426@cornell.edu > > > > --Apple-Mail-44-137675973 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=windows-1252 > > Dear EvolDir Members > > We are undertaking a meta-analysis on the relationship between > population genetic differentiation and geographic distances across > taxa belonging to different insect orders. > > Meta-analysis studies of this nature require a large sample size and > we are asking for your input. In order to standardize across > studies, we are going to calculate Hedrick's G'st (Hedrick 2005) and > D (Jost 2008). For this purpose, we need the raw genotype dataset > (better if in a GENEPOP or ARLEQUIN format) and pairwise geographic > distance between subpopulations/demes. > > In a first phase of our work we searched for studies through the Web > of Science (mainly), but we now would like to increase the sample > size of the studies on which we'll base our conclusion. > > We are looking for data sets where data on insect population > genetics have been generated by using: > > at least 5 microsatellite markers > > at least 20 unrelated individual per population > > at least 5 populations > > If you have one (or more than one) data set that satisfies these > criteria, please send it by email to Margarita or to Antonella > (email addresses below). Your contribution would obviously be > acknowledged and your publication(s) cited. > > We'd like to thank publically the individuals whom we already > contacted directly and who generously offered their datasets. > > Thank you very much in advance > > Margarita L?pez-Uribe (Cornell University, mml82@cornell.edu) > > Antonella Soro, (Queen's University Belfast, a.soro@qub.ac.uk) > > Bryan Danforth (Cornell University) > > Robert Paxton (Martin-Luther University, Halle) > --Apple-Mail-44-137675973 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Type: text/html; > charset=windows-1252 > >
Dear EvolDir Members
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> text-autospace:none">We are undertaking a meta-analysis on the
> relationship
> between population genetic differentiation and geographic distances
> across taxa
> belonging to different insect orders.
class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid- > align:none; > text-autospace:none">Meta-analysis studies of this nature > require a large > sample size and we are asking for your input. In order to > standardize across > studies, we are going to calculate Hedrick's G'st (Hedrick 2005) and > D (Jost > 2008). For this purpose, we need the raw genotype dataset > b> (better > if in a GENEPOP or ARLEQUIN format) and pairwise geographic > distance between > subpopulations/demes.
In a first phase of our work we > searched for studies > through the Web of Science (mainly), but we now would like to > increase the > sample size of the studies on which we'll base our conclusion. > span>
We are looking for data sets where data > on insect > population genetics have been generated by using:
class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid- > align:none; > text-autospace:none">at least 5 microsatellite markers > b>
at least 20 > unrelated individual per > population
at
> least 5 populations
style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; > text-autospace:none">If you have one (or more than one) data > set that > satisfies these criteria, please send it by email to Margarita or to > Antonella > (email addresses below). Your contribution would obviously be > acknowledged and > your publication(s) cited.
We'd like to thank publically the > individuals whom we > already contacted directly and who generously offered their > datasets.
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Thank you very much in > advance
Margarita L?pez-Uribe (Cornell > University, > mml82@cornell.edu) > p>
Antonella Soro, (Queen's University Belfast,
> a.soro@qub.ac.uk)
Bryan Danforth (Cornell University)