Chapter 11 Activity Overview

This activity is based on work published by Drs. Elizabeth Carlen and Jason Munshi-South in 2021, “Widespread genetic connectivity of feral pigeons across the Northeastern megacity”.

Image of the title of the Carlen and Munshi-South paper on feral pigeon genetics

In this module, you will work with SNP data from a subsample of 50 feral pigeons (collected in 6 different Northeastern US cities) that were captured and sampled in Carlen and Munshi-South’s study. You will calculate PCA and create plots to visualize the population structure among these pigeons using the R programming language.

You can read the full study here.

This is a brief video introduction to the activity.

You can view and download the Google Slides here

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