QST -FST comparisons: Evolutionary and ecological insights from genomic heterogeneity

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 179-190

  Leinonen, Tuomas ^a   McCairns, R J Scott ^a   O'Hara, Robert B ^b   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q ST F ST COMPARISON; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874188531     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3395     Document Type: Review

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