Continental-scale footprint of balancing and positive selection in a small rodent (microtus arvalis)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Fischer, Martin C ^a,b   Foll, Matthieu ^a,c,d   Heckel, Gerald ^a,d   Excoffier, Laurent ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Integrative Biology   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BALANCING SELECTION; BAYES THEOREM; BELGIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMANY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; ITALY; MALE; MICROTUS ARVALIS; NONHUMAN; POLAND; POSITIVE SELECTION; SPAIN; SWITZERLAND; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; EUROPE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

MICROTUS ARVALIS; RODENTIA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84911436367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112332     Document Type: Article

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