La selección en sitios vinculados da forma a la variación fenotípica hereditaria en C. elegans.

Matthew V Rockman1, Sonja S Skrovanek, Leonid Kruglyak

  • 1Department of Biology and Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA. mrockman@nyu.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|October 16, 2010
PubMed
Resumen

La variación genética surge de la mutación y está moldeada por la deriva genética y la selección natural. En Caenorhabditis elegans, la variación del rasgo está influenciada más por el tamaño regional de la población efectiva que por factores específicos del rasgo.

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