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Do North Atlantic eels show parallel patterns of spatially varying selection?
BMC evolutionary biology - 20 Jun 2014
Ulrik Malene G, Pujolar José Martín, Ferchaud Anne-Laure, Jacobsen Magnus W, Als Thomas D, Gagnaire Pierre Alexandre, Frydenberg Jane, Bøcher Peder K, Jónsson Bjarni, Bernatchez Louis, Hansen Michael M
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BACKGROUND: The two North Atlantic eel species, the European and the American eel, represent an ideal system in which to study parallel selection patterns due to their sister species status and the presence of ongoing gene flow. A panel of 80 coding-gene SNPs previously analyzed in American eel was used to genotype European eel individuals (glass eels) from 8 sampling locations across the species distribution. We...
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