Article
Strong natural selection causes microscale allozyme variation in a marine snail.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Mar 1995
Johannesson K, Johannesson B, Lundgren U
Abstract excerpt
Natural selection is one of the most fundamental processes in biology. However, there is still a controversy over the importance of selection in microevolution of molecular traits. Despite the general lack of data most authors hold the view that selection on molecular characters may be important, but at lower rates than selection on most phenotypic traits. Here we present evidence that natural selection may...
Topics
- Animals
- Aspartate Aminotransferases
- Biological Evolution
- Gene Frequency
- Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase
- Isoenzymes
- Mannose-6-Phosphate Isomerase
- Phenotype
- Phosphoglucomutase
- Purine-Nucleoside Phosphorylase