Mutation at high rates reduces spatial structure within populations.

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The question of whether or not the high rates (mu) of mutation that occur for some hypervariable markers can affect commonly used empirical measures of spatial structure of genetic variation within populations is addressed. The results show that values of these measures are approximately halved when mu is 10(-2). Finest spatial-scale correlations, measured by either Moran's I-statistics or conditional kinship,...

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