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Signals of demographic expansion in Drosophila virilis.
BMC evolutionary biology - 25 Feb 2008
Mirol Patricia M, Routtu Jarkko, Hoikkala Anneli, Butlin Roger K
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BACKGROUND: The pattern of genetic variation within and among populations of a species is strongly affected by its phylogeographic history. Analyses based on putatively neutral markers provide data from which past events, such as population expansions and colonizations, can be inferred. Drosophila virilis is a cosmopolitan species belonging to the virilis group, where divergence times between different phylads go...
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