Evolving populations

• Mating Schemes
  • Control the size of the offspring generation
  • Advanced use of demographic functions *
  • Determine the number of offspring during mating
  • Dynamic population size determined by number of offspring *
  • Determine sex of offspring
  • Monogamous mating
  • Polygamous mating
  • Asexual random mating
  • Mating in haplodiploid populations
  • Self-fertilization
  • Heterogeneous mating schemes *
  • Conditional mating schemes
• Simulator
  • Add, access and remove populations from a simulator
  • Number of generations to evolve
  • Evolve populations in a simulator
• Non-random and customized mating schemes *
  • The structure of a homogeneous mating scheme *
  • Offspring generators *
  • Genotype transmitters *
  • A Python parent chooser *
  • Using C++ to implement a parent chooser **
• Age structured populations with overlapping generations **
• Tracing allelic lineage *
• Pedigrees
  • Create a pedigree object
  • Locate close and remote relatives of each individual
  • Identify pedigrees (related individuals)
  • Save and load pedigrees
• Evolve a population following a specified pedigree structure **
• Simulation of mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) *