Authors: Marco Sazzini, Paolo Abondio, Stefania Sarno, Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone, Matteo Ragno, Cristina Giuliani, Sara De Fanti, Claudia Ojeda-Granados, Alessio Boattini, Julien Marquis, Armand Valsesia, Jérôme Carayol, Frederic Raymond, Chiara Pirazzini, Elena Marasco, Alberto Ferrarini, Luciano Xumerle, Sebastiano Collino, Daniela Mari, Beatrice Arosio, Daniela Monti, Giuseppe Passarino, Patrizia D'Aquila, Davide Pettener, Donata Luiselli, Gastone Castellani, Massimo Delledonne, Patrick Descombes, Claudio Franceschi, Paolo Garagnani
Venue: BMC Biology
Type: Publication
Abstract: Abstract Background The cline of human genetic diversity observable across Europe is recapitulated at a micro-geographic scale by variation within the Italian population. Besides resulting from extensive gene flow, this might be ascribable also to local adaptations to diverse ecological contexts evolved by people who anciently spread along the Italian Peninsula. Dissecting the evolutionary history of the ancestors of present-day Italians may thus improve the understanding of demographic and biological processes that contributed to shape the gen...
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Topics: 
Evolutionary biology
Ecology
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