Into the wild—WAMBAM goes to Canada

Abstract

The sixth Wild Animal Models Bi-Annual Meeting was held in July 2017 in Québec, with 42 participants. This report documents the evolution of questions asked and approaches used in evolutionary quantitative genetic studies of wild populations in recent decades, and how these questions and approaches were represented at the recent meeting. We explore how ideas from previous meetings in this series have developed to their present states, and consider how the format of the meetings may be particularly useful at fostering the rapid development and proliferation of ideas and approaches.

Editorial 2019

“…A meeting review of a symposium on "Detecting the Genomic Signal of Polygenic Adaptation and the Role of Epistasis in Evolution" (Csilléry, Rodriguez‐Verdugo, Rellstab, & Guillaume, ) highlighted the often‐complex genetic underpinnings of evolution. Two other meeting reviews also highlighted the important role of genomic data in unifying previously distinct and diverse fields of study, including an international meeting on Littorinid evolution (Ravinet, ) and the Wild Animal Models Bi‐Annual Meeting in Quebec (Morrissey et al, ). This unifying feature of DNA sequence data is being discussed more and more frequently, suggesting that the field of Molecular Ecology is becoming increasingly successful as an interdisciplinary approach.…”