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- Title
Highlight: Comparative Population Genomics—Answering Old Questions with New Data.
- Authors
McGrath, Casey
- Abstract
According to Sackton, this was a major motivation behind the Special Section: "I hope that highlighting the emerging power of comparative analysis of multispecies population variation datasets will stimulate new ideas in the field and encourage a growing emphasis on multispecies comparisons in population genetics." Using whole-genome variation data from 88 great apes, Goldberg and Harris find that mutation spectrum evolution is largely driven by "trans-acting mutational modifiers that affect mutagenesis across the whole genome fairly uniformly." The authors argue that "comparative phylogeography offers an important perspective on evolutionary history that succeeds in integrating genomics with landscape evolution in ways that complement the suprageographic perspective of comparative population genomics.".
- Subjects
HUMAN population genetics; COVID-19; COMPARATIVE genetics; GUT microbiome; GENETIC drift; COVID-19 pandemic; BIOLOGICAL evolution
- Publication
Genome Biology & Evolution, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1759-6653
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1093/gbe/evab278