Authors: Romiguier, J., Gayral, Philippe, Ballenghien, Marion, Bernard, Aurélien, Cahais, Vincent, Chenuil, A., Chiari, Ylenia, Dernat, R., Duret, L., Faivre, Nicolas, Loire, Etienne, Lourenco, Joao M., Nabholz, Benoit, Roux, C., Tsagkogeorga, G., Weber, A.A.T., Weinert, Lucy Anne, Belkhir, Khalid, Bierne, Glemin, Sylvain, Galtier
Venue: Nature
Type: Publication
Abstract: International audience; Genetic diversity is the amount of variation observed between DNA sequences from distinct individuals of a given species. This pivotal concept of population genetics has implications for species health, domest-ication, management and conservation. Levels of genetic diversity seem to vary greatly in natural populations and species, but the determinants of this variation, and particularly the relative influences of species biology and ecology versus population history, are still largely mysterious 1,2. Here we show that th...
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Topics: 
Ecology
Evolutionary biology
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