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Natural history and evolution of a color polymorphism in Rana pipiens, the northern leopard frog

Creator:

Hoffman, Eric A.

Abstract:

A primary goal of population genetics is to identify the role of microevolutionary forces in producing observed patterns of molecular and phenotypic variation. I conducted four studies in the northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens, to determine just how mutation, migration, genetic drift, and selection influenced, genetic structure of mitochondrial DNA...

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Dissertation
Population genetics of ranid frogs : investigating effective population size and gene flow

Creator:

Phillipsen, Ivan C.

Abstract:

This dissertation focuses on the evolutionary forces of genetic drift and gene flow in frog populations. The balance of these two forces and the force of mutation largely determine the amount of neutral genetic variation within populations as well as the degree of genetic similarity among populations. The stochastic evolutionary...

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Dissertation

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