Going beyond SNPs: The role of structural genomic variants in adaptive evolution and species diversification

Mol Ecol. 2019 Mar;28(6):1203-1209. doi: 10.1111/mec.15066.

Authors

Maren Wellenreuther^{1

2}, Claire Mérot³, Emma Berdan⁴, Louis Bernatchez³

Affiliations

¹ The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd, Nelson, New Zealand.
² School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
³ Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes (IBIS), Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
⁴ Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

PMID: 30834648
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15066

No abstract available

Keywords: CNVs; adaptation; chromosomal rearrangements; deletions; duplications; insertions; inversions; structural variation.

MeSH terms

Animals
DNA Copy Number Variations / genetics*
Evolution, Molecular*
Genetic Speciation*
Genome, Human / genetics
Genomic Structural Variation / genetics*
Genomics
Humans
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics
Species Specificity