Similar Levels of X-linked and Autosomal Nucleotide Variation in African and non-African populations of <it>Drosophila melanogaster</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Levels of molecular diversity in Drosophila have repeatedly been shown to be higher in ancestral, African populations than in derived, non-African populations. This pattern holds for both coding and noncoding regions for a variety of...

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Main Authors: Jensen Jeffrey D, Macpherson J Michael, Singh Nadia D, Petrov Dmitri A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-10-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/202