Revisiting an Old Riddle: What Determines Genetic Diversity Levels within Species?

Ellen M. Leffler; Kevin Bullaughey; Daniel R. Matute; Wynn K. Meyer; Laure Ségurel; Aarti Venkat; Peter Andolfatto; Molly Przeworski

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001388

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Revisiting an Old Riddle: What Determines Genetic Diversity Levels within Species?

Ellen M. Leffler ,

* E-mail: emleffler@uchicago.edu (EML); mfp@uchicago.edu (MP)

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Kevin Bullaughey ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin Bullaughey, Daniel R. Matute, Wynn K. Meyer, Laure Ségurel, Aarti Venkat

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Daniel R. Matute ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin Bullaughey, Daniel R. Matute, Wynn K. Meyer, Laure Ségurel, Aarti Venkat

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Wynn K. Meyer ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin Bullaughey, Daniel R. Matute, Wynn K. Meyer, Laure Ségurel, Aarti Venkat

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Laure Ségurel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin Bullaughey, Daniel R. Matute, Wynn K. Meyer, Laure Ségurel, Aarti Venkat

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Aarti Venkat ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin Bullaughey, Daniel R. Matute, Wynn K. Meyer, Laure Ségurel, Aarti Venkat

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Peter Andolfatto,

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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Molly Przeworski

* E-mail: emleffler@uchicago.edu (EML); mfp@uchicago.edu (MP)

Affiliations Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Revisiting an Old Riddle: What Determines Genetic Diversity Levels within Species?

Ellen M. Leffler,
Kevin Bullaughey,
Daniel R. Matute,
Wynn K. Meyer,
Laure Ségurel,
Aarti Venkat,
Peter Andolfatto,
Molly Przeworski

Published: September 11, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001388

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