Article
Contrasting population genetic patterns within the white-throated sparrow genome (Zonotrichia albicollis).
BMC genetics - 28 Oct 2010
Huynh Lynn Y, Maney Donna L, Thomas James W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The level of nucleotide diversity observed across the genome is positively correlated with the local rate of recombination. Avian karyotypes are typified by large variation in chromosome size and the rate of recombination in birds has been shown to be negatively correlated with chromosome size. It has thus been predicted that nucleotide diversity is negatively correlated with chromosome size in aves....
Topics
- Animals
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genome
- Male
- North America
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Recombination, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA