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What Use Is Population Genetics?

The Genetic Society of America’s Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is awarded to an individual GSA member for lifetime achievement in the field of genetics. For over 40 years, 2015 recipient Brian Charlesworth has been a leader in both theoretical and empirical evolutionary genetics, making substantial contr...

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Autor principal: Charlesworth, Brian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Genetics Society of America 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4512530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26170438
http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.178426
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description The Genetic Society of America’s Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is awarded to an individual GSA member for lifetime achievement in the field of genetics. For over 40 years, 2015 recipient Brian Charlesworth has been a leader in both theoretical and empirical evolutionary genetics, making substantial contributions to our understanding of how evolution acts on genetic variation. Some of the areas in which Charlesworth’s research has been most influential are the evolution of sex chromosomes, transposable elements, deleterious mutations, sexual reproduction, and life history. He also developed the influential theory of background selection, whereby the recurrent elimination of deleterious mutations reduces variation at linked sites, providing a general explanation for the correlation between recombination rate and genetic variation.
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spelling pubmed-45125302015-07-24 What Use Is Population Genetics? Charlesworth, Brian Genetics The 2015 GSA Honors and Awards The Genetic Society of America’s Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is awarded to an individual GSA member for lifetime achievement in the field of genetics. For over 40 years, 2015 recipient Brian Charlesworth has been a leader in both theoretical and empirical evolutionary genetics, making substantial contributions to our understanding of how evolution acts on genetic variation. Some of the areas in which Charlesworth’s research has been most influential are the evolution of sex chromosomes, transposable elements, deleterious mutations, sexual reproduction, and life history. He also developed the influential theory of background selection, whereby the recurrent elimination of deleterious mutations reduces variation at linked sites, providing a general explanation for the correlation between recombination rate and genetic variation. Genetics Society of America 2015-07 2015-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4512530/ /pubmed/26170438 http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.178426 Text en Copyright © 2015 by the Genetics Society of America Available freely online.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4512530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26170438
http://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.178426
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