Population genomic evidence for adaptive differentiation in the Baltic Sea herring.

doi:10.1111/mec.13657

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Population genomic evidence for adaptive differentiation in the Baltic Sea herring.

Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2016

Guo Baocheng, Li Zitong, Merilä Juha

Abstract excerpt

Detecting and estimating the degree of genetic differentiation among populations of highly mobile marine fish having pelagic larval stages is challenging because their effective population sizes can be large, and thus, little genetic drift and differentiation is expected in neutral genomic sites....

Topics

Adaptation, Physiological
Animals
Atlantic Ocean
Environment
Gene Flow
Gene Frequency
Genetics, Population
Models, Genetic
Perciformes
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Sequence Analysis, DNA

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