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Which Latitudinal Gradients for Genetic Diversity?
Trends in ecology & evolution - 1 Oct 2017
Gratton Paolo, Marta Silvio, Bocksberger Gaëlle, Winter Marten, Keil Petr, Trucchi Emiliano, Kühl Hjalmar
Abstract excerpt
A recent global analysis of GenBank DNA sequences from amphibians and mammals indicated consistent poleward decrease of intraspecific genetic diversity in both classes. We highlight that this result was biased by not accounting for distance decay of similarity and reanalyse the datasets, revealing distinct latitudinal gradients in mammals and amphibians.
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