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SUBMITTER: Mackintosh A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6672018 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mackintosh Alexander A Laetsch Dominik R DR Hayward Alexander A Charlesworth Brian B Waterfall Martin M Vila Roger R Lohse Konrad K
Nature communications 20190801 1
Under the neutral theory, genetic diversity is expected to increase with population size. While comparative analyses have consistently failed to find strong relationships between census population size and genetic diversity, a recent study across animals identified a strong correlation between propagule size and genetic diversity, suggesting that r-strategists that produce many small offspring, have greater long-term population sizes. Here we compare genome-wide genetic diversity across 38 speci ...[more]