Article
Selection and sticklebacks.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2008
Beaumont Mark A
Abstract excerpt
Over the last decade, there has been increasing circumstantial evidence for the action of natural selection in the genome, arising largely from molecular genetic surveys of large numbers of markers. In nonmodel organisms without densely mapped markers, a frequently used method is to identify loci that have unusually high or low levels of genetic differentiation, or low genetic diversity relative to other...
Topics
- Animals
- Fresh Water
- Genetic Variation
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Seawater
- Selection, Genetic
- Smegmamorpha
