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SUBMITTER: Duchen P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3527251 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Duchen Pablo P Zivkovic Daniel D Hutter Stephan S Stephan Wolfgang W Laurent Stefan S
Genetics 20121112 1
Drosophila melanogaster spread from sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of the world colonizing new environments. Here, we modeled the joint demography of African (Zimbabwe), European (The Netherlands), and North American (North Carolina) populations using an approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) approach. By testing different models (including scenarios with continuous migration), we found that admixture between Africa and Europe most likely generated the North American population, with an estimate ...[more]