Population size and molecular evolution on islands
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Population size and molecular evolution on islands.
The nearly neutral theory predicts that the rate and pattern of molecular evolution will be influenced by effective population size (Ne), because in small populations more slightly deleterious mutations are expected to drift to fixation. This important prediction has not been widely empirically tested, largely because of the difficulty of comparing rates of molecular evolution in sufficient num...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3217