Genetic diversity and the efficacy of purifying selection across plant and animal species

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1417-1428

  Chen, Jun ^a   Glémin, Sylvain ^a,b   Lascoux, Martin ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Distribution of fitness effects; Effective population size; Life history traits; Nearly neutral theory; Purifying selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMESTICATION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; MATING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTATION RATE; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PLANT GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROPAGULE; PURIFYING SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SILENT MUTATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SILENT MUTATION;

EID: 85027400133     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx088     Document Type: Article

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