Journal
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 51-63Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.09.008
Keywords
ecological genomics; evolutionary genomics; genome sequencing; molecular evolution; adaptive evolution; positive selection; population genomics; speciation genetics
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- European Research Council
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- Swedish Research Council [2007-8731, 2010-5650]
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High-throughput sequencing technologies are revolutionizing the life sciences. The past 12 months have seen a burst of genome sequences from non-model organisms, in each case representing a fundamental source of data of significant importance to biological research. This has bearing on several aspects of evolutionary biology, and we are now beginning to see patterns emerging from these studies. These include significant heterogeneity in the rate of recombination that affects adaptive evolution and base composition, the role of population size in adaptive evolution, and the importance of expansion of gene families in lineage-specific adaptation. Moreover, resequencing of population samples (population genomics) has enabled the identification of the genetic basis of critical phenotypes and cast light on the landscape of genomic divergence during speciation.
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