Extreme Lewontin's paradox in ubiquitous marine phytoplankton species
Larger populations are expected to have larger genetic diversity. However, as pointed out by Lewontin in 1974, the range of population sizes exceeds the range of genetic diversity by many orders of magnitude (aka “Lewontin’s paradox”, LP). The reasons for LP remain obscure. Here I report an extreme...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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