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The Genomic Signature of Population Reconnection Following Isolation: From Theory to HIV.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 6 Nov 2015
Alcala Nicolas, Jensen Jeffrey D, Telenti Amalio, Vuilleumier Séverine
Abstract excerpt
Ease of worldwide travel provides increased opportunities for organisms not only to colonize new environments but also to encounter related but diverged populations. Such events of reconnection and secondary contact of previously isolated populations are widely observed at different time scales. For example, during the quaternary glaciation, sea water level fluctuations caused temporal isolation of populations,...
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