Revisiting an Old Riddle: What Determines Genetic Diversity Levels within Species?

Ellen M. Leffler; Kevin Bullaughey; Daniel R. Matute; Wynn K. Meyer; Laure Ségurel; Aarti Venkat; Peter Andolfatto; Molly Przeworski

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001388

Revisiting an Old Riddle: What Determines Genetic Diversity Levels within Species?

Ellen M. Leffler, Kevin Bullaughey, Daniel R. Matute, Wynn K. Meyer, Laure Ségurel, Aarti Venkat, Peter Andolfatto, Molly Przeworski

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

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Understanding why some species have more genetic diversity than others is central to the study of ecology and evolution, and carries potentially important implications for conservation biology. Yet not only does this question remain unresolved, it has largely fallen into disregard. With the rapid decrease in sequencing costs, we argue that it is time to revive it.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e1001388
Journal	PLoS biology
Volume	10
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001388
State	Published - Sep 2012

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