Journal
GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evac096
Keywords
coalescent time; diversity; genetic drift; hitchhiking; mutation; effective population size
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- National Institutes of Health [R35GM139383]
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This article discusses the genetic, demographic, and selective forces that limit the observed levels of DNA sequence variation in natural populations, and highlights the potentially important role of population size change in this process.
We discuss the genetic, demographic, and selective forces that are likely to be at play in restricting observed levels of DNA sequence variation in natural populations to a much smaller range of values than would be expected from the distribution of census population sizes alone-Lewontin's Paradox. While several processes that have previously been strongly emphasized must be involved, including the effects of direct selection and genetic hitchhiking, it seems unlikely that they are sufficient to explain this observation without contributions from other factors. We highlight a potentially important role for the less-appreciated contribution of population size change; specifically, the likelihood that many species and populations may be quite far from reaching the relatively high equilibrium diversity values that would be expected given their current census sizes.
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