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Review
. 2006 Aug;173(4):2411-4.
doi: 10.1534/genetics.106.059881. Epub 2006 Jul 18.

The adaptive hypothesis of clinal variation revisited: single-locus clines as a result of spatially restricted gene flow

Anti Vasemägi
Review

The adaptive hypothesis of clinal variation revisited: single-locus clines as a result of spatially restricted gene flow

Anti Vasemägi. Genetics. 2006 Aug.
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Figure 1.—
Relationship between the strength of IBD pattern quantified as Pearson correlation coefficient (r) and the proportion of loci showing significant clinal variation. Open circles correspond to 72 simulated data sets generated under the neutral evolutionary scenario consisting of 500 loci each; the filled circle represents an empirical D. melanogaster microsatellite data set (19 loci, 11 populations) from Gockel et al. (2001).
F<sc>igure</sc> 2.—
Figure 2.—
Relationship between the slope (b) and the coefficient of determination (r2) of most common allele (MCA) against latitude. Filled circles represent individual loci of the D. melanogaster microsatellite data set from Gockel et al. (2001) and open circles correspond to 500 neutral loci from a simulated data set that most closely resembled the empirical study in terms of overall FST and the strength of IBD. The names of the two Drosophila microsatellite loci with the steepest clines are indicated.
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