Direct selection on allozymes is not required to explain heterogeneity among marker loci across aMytilushybrid zone
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Direct selection on allozymes is not required to explain heterogeneity among marker loci across a Mytilus hybrid zone.
Unequal differentiation between two types of loci (allozyme and DNA markers) across a Mytilus hybrid zone has recently been claimed as evidence for direct selection on some allozyme loci. We provide here a counter-example: a noncoding DNA locus that exhibits as much differentiation as the incriminated allozymes do. The levels of genetic differentiation varied widely among both allozymes and non...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Ecology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0962-1083,1365-294X
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2003.01936.x