Drift, not selection, shapes toll-like receptor variation among oceanic island populations

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 5852-5863

  Gonzalez Quevedo, Catalina ^a,b   Spurgin, Lewis G ^a   Illera, Juan Carlos ^c   Richardson, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthus berthelotii; Berthelot's pipit; bottleneck; founder effects; genetic drift; genetic variation; selection; toll like receptors

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; ISLANDS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 84948568781     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13437     Document Type: Article

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