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How closely correlated are molecular and quantitative measures of genetic variation? A meta-analysis.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jun 2001
Reed D H, Frankham R
Abstract excerpt
The ability of populations to undergo adaptive evolution depends on the presence of quantitative genetic variation for ecologically important traits. Although molecular measures are widely used as surrogates for quantitative genetic variation, there is controversy about the strength of the relationship between the two. To resolve this issue, we carried out a meta-analysis based on 71 datasets. The mean...
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