The maintenance of standing genetic variation: Gene flow vs. selective neutrality in Atlantic stickleback fish.

doi:10.1111/mec.16269

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The maintenance of standing genetic variation: Gene flow vs. selective neutrality in Atlantic stickleback fish.

Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2022

Haenel Quiterie, Guerard Laurent, MacColl Andrew D C, Berner Daniel

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Adaptation to derived habitats often occurs from standing genetic variation. The maintenance within ancestral populations of genetic variants favourable in derived habitats is commonly ascribed to long-term antagonism between purifying selection and gene flow resulting from hybridization across h...

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Animals
Gene Flow
Genetic Variation
Genome
Selection, Genetic
Smegmamorpha

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