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Quantifying the relationship between genetic diversity and population size suggests natural selection cannot explain Lewontin’s Paradox
Neutral theory predicts that genetic diversity increases with population size, yet observed levels of diversity across metazoans vary only two orders of magnitude while population sizes vary over several. This unexpectedly narrow range of diversity is known as Lewontin’s Paradox of Variation (1974)....
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8486380/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34409937 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67509 |