Explaining stasis: microevolutionary studies in natural populations

2001/11/01 by J. Merilä, Juha Merilä, Ben C. Sheldon +3 · 458 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Adaptation (eye) #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Demography #Evolutionary biology #Genetic diversity and population structure #Genetic drift #Genetic variation #Genetics #Human evolutionary genetics #Microevolution #Natural selection #Phylogenetics #Population #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

paper · doi:10.1023/a:1013391806317

published in Genetica 112-113(1), 199-222 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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