Using Population Genomics to Detect Selection in Natural Populations: Key Concepts and Methodological Considerations
- 1 November 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in International Journal of Plant Sciences
- Vol. 171 (9), 1059-1071
- https://doi.org/10.1086/656306
Abstract
Natural selection shapes patterns of genetic variation among individuals, populations, and species, and it does so differentially across genomes. The field of population genomics provides a compreh...Keywords
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