Selection at the Y chromosome of the African buffalo driven by rainfall.

Selection coefficients at the mammalian Y chromosome typically do not deviate strongly from neutrality. Here we show that strong balancing selection, maintaining intermediate frequencies of DNA sequence variants, acts on the Y chromosome in two populations of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Signi...

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Main Authors: Pim van Hooft, Barend J Greyling, Herbert H T Prins, Wayne M Getz, Anna E Jolles, Armanda D S Bastos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2034602?pdf=render