The determinants of genetic diversity in butterflies

Theory suggests that neutral genetic diversity is determined by census population size, but this is not observed empirically. Here, the authors show that in butterflies, neutral genetic diversity correlates with both body size and chromosome number, suggesting that linked selection is also an import...

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Main Authors: Alexander Mackintosh, Dominik R. Laetsch, Alexander Hayward, Brian Charlesworth, Martin Waterfall, Roger Vila, Konrad Lohse
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/8df8c8f9c2c34c1fa5ee7498091308e4
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