Assignment & Clustering - Dr. Sean Schoville

Lecture Synopsis

This lecture focuses on measuring and identifying population structure in landscape genetics. The lecture has the following learning objectives:  

 1.    Explain the concept of population structure.

2.    Understand the tradeoffs in population-based and individual-based inferences of population structure.

3.    Describe and interpret exploratory data analyses, such as principal components analysis (PCA), when applied to population genetic data.

4.    Describe and interpret a population cluster analysis, as well as understand the assumptions and limitations of these methods.

5.    Understand how geographically explicit approaches can improve cluster analyses.

Readings

Required reading:

• Chapter 7 of Textbook (Clustering and assignment methods in landscape genetics)

Lecture Slides

Week 9 Slides

Lecture Video