Determinants of genetic diversity

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 422-433

  Ellegren, Hans ^a   Galtier, Nicolas ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MATING SYSTEM; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POLYPLOIDY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPECIES DIVERSITY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; METAGENOMICS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84973319914     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.58     Document Type: Review

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