Identification of Local- and Habitat-Dependent Selection: Scanning Functionally Important Genes in Nine-Spined Sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius)
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Identification of local- and habitat-dependent selection: scanning functionally important genes in nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius).
Understanding the selective forces promoting adaptive population divergence is a central issue in evolutionary biology. The role of environmental salinity in driving adaptation and evolution in aquatic organisms is still poorly understood. We investigated the relative impacts of habitat type (cf. saltwater vs. freshwater) and geographic area in shaping adaptive population divergence, as well as...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0737-4038,1537-1719
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq167