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Genome-wide analysis in chicken reveals that local levels of genetic diversity are mainly governed by the rate of recombination.
BMC genomics - 8 Feb 2013
Mugal Carina F, Nabholz Benoit, Ellegren Hans
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BACKGROUND: Polymorphism is key to the evolutionary potential of populations. Understanding which factors shape levels of genetic diversity within genomes forms a central question in evolutionary genomics and is of importance for the possibility to infer episodes of adaptive evolution from signs of reduced diversity. There is an on-going debate on the relative role of mutation and selection in governing diversity...
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