G Hewitt1

  • 1School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. g.hewitt@uea.ac.uk

Nature
|July 6, 2000
PubMed
まとめ

気候変動は,種の分布と遺伝子組成に大きな影響を及ぼします. DNA技術は,氷河期が人口やコミュニティの遺伝子構造をどのように形作ったかを明らかにしています.

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