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SUBMITTER: Davison A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1690693 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20000701 1451
We have used molecular variation in microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA to throw light on the origins of enigmatic geographical patterns, known as 'area effects', in the shell polymorphisms of the land snail Cepaea nemoralis. Our aim was to assess the relative importance of recent selection and historical events in the formation of these patterns. On the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, England, the 'type locality' for area effects, the frequencies of microsatellites are significantly associated ...[more]