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QST–FST comparisons: evolutionary and ecological insights from genomic heterogeneity
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Comparative studies of the divergence of quantitative traits and neutral molecular markers, known as Q(ST)-F(ST) comparisons, provide a means for researchers to distinguish between natural selection and genetic drift as causes of population differentiation in complex polygenic traits. The use of Q(ST)-F(ST) comparisons has increased rapidly in the last few years, highlighting the utility of this approach for addressing a wide range of questions that are relevant to evolutionary and ecological genetics. These studies have also provided lessons for the design of future Q(ST)-F(ST) comparisons. Methods based on the Q(ST)-F(ST) approach could also be used to analyse various types of 'omics' data in new and revealing ways.
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“Thus, by testing whether QST is significantly greater than FST, it is possible to determine whether there is more genetically explained trait variation among populations than expected under neutral evolution (28–31).”
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“Under a null model in which phenotypes are selectively neutral, genetic propensity differences contributing to phenotypic differences among populations are predicted to be small.”
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“In other words, analogous measures of population differences in quantitative phenotypic traits and genetic loci—termed QST and FST, respectively—are approximately equal in neutral evolutionary models that include genetic drift but not natural selection.”
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Mathematical Constraints on FST: Biallelic Markers in Arbitrarily Many Populations
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“…resistance and mate choice and are thereby subject to both ecological divergence and divergence due to sexual selection, CHCs may be particularly important traits for the processes of reproductive isolation and speciation (Higgie et al., 2000; Blows, 2002; Chung et al., 2014; Maroja et al., 2014).”
BackgroundGuo, J., Liu, R., Huang, L., Zheng, X., Liu, P., Du, Y.-S., Cai, Z., Zhou, L., Wei, X.-H., Zhang, F., et al. (2015) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msv196 · Cited by 31
“…drift is the main cause of population differentiation in morphological traits and has been widely used to infer the degree of both local adaptation and adaptive divergence between populations/ species (Meril€ a and Crnokrak 2001; McKay and Latta 2002; Nakazato et al. 2008; Leinonen et al. 2013).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialMartínez‐Sancho, E., Rellstab, C., Guillaume, F., Bigler, C., Fonti, P., Wohlgemuth, T., & Vitasse, Y. (2021) · Science of the Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146393 · Cited by 27
“…be considered as a null expectation of population differentiation solely due to drift and migration, QST is a quantitative analogue to FST that measures the amount of genetic variation among provenances in relation to the total genetic variance in a trait (reviewed in e.g., Leinonen et al., 2013).”
BackgroundMathé‐Hubert, H., Kremmer, L., Colinet, D., Gatti, J., van Baaren, J., Delava, É., & Poirié, M. (2019) · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00156 · Cited by 27
“This bias is generally considered low because, in most cases, QST is Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | www.frontiersin.org 10 May 2019 | Volume 7 | Article 156 computed for multigenic traits (Leinonen et al., 2013).”
BackgroundSchrieber, K., Wolf, S., Wypior, C., Höhlig, D., Hensen, I., & Lachmuth, S. (2017) · doi:10.1111/oik.03781 · Cited by 27
Effects of marker type and filtering criteria onQST-FSTcomparisons
Li, Z., Löytynoja, A., Fraimout, A., & Merilä, J. (2019) · Royal Society Open Science · doi:10.1098/rsos.190666 · Cited by 25
Self-citationRaffard, A., Cucherousset, J., Prunier, J., Loot, G., Santoul, F., & Blanchet, S. (2019) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.4961 · Cited by 26
Inferring human neutral genetic variation from craniodental phenotypes
Rathmann, H., Perretti, S., Porcu, V., Hanihara, T., Scott, G. R., Irish, J. D., Reyes‐Centeno, H., Ghirotto, S., & Harvati, K. (2023) · PNAS Nexus · doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad217 · Cited by 28
Adaptive evolution of chestnut forests to the impact of ink disease in Spain
Alcaide, F., Solla, A., Cherubini, M., Mattioni, C., Cuenca, B., Camisón, Á., & Martín, M. A. (2020) · doi:10.1111/jse.12551 · Cited by 25
“Comparative studies of the divergence of quantitative traits and neutral molecular markers, known as QST–FST comparisons, permit distinction between natural selection and genetic drift as causes of population differentiation in complex polygenic traits (Leinonen et al., 2013).”
BackgroundGenetic determination of tannins and herbivore resistance in Quercus ilex
Solla, A., Milanovic, S., Gallardo, A., Bueno, A., Corcobado, T., Cáceres, Y., Morcuende, D., Quesada, A., Moreno, G., & Pulido, F. (2016) · Tree Genetics & Genomes · doi:10.1007/s11295-016-1069-9 · Cited by 25
“Defoliation”
Oláh, J., Chvojka, P., Coppa, G., Godunko, R. J., Lodovici, O., Majecka, K., Majecki, J., Szczesny, B., Urbanič, G., & Valle, M. (2015) · Opuscula Zoologica · doi:10.18348/opzool.2015.1.3 · Cited by 21
“Both would greatly contribute to distinguish between natural selection and genetic drift as causes of divergence of speciation traits instead of giving jobs for technicians or students to measure more neutral markers or barcoding (Leinonen et al. 2013).”
BackgroundGentili, R., Solari, A., Diekmann, M., Dupré, C., Monti, G., Armiraglio, S., Assini, S., & Citterio, S. (2018) · PeerJ · doi:10.7717/peerj.4929 · Cited by 24
“…respectively; h2 expresses the heritability (the proportion of phenotypic variance that is due to additive genetic effects); the scalar c expresses the proportion of the total variance that is presumed to be due to additive genetic variance across populations (Brommer, 2011; Leinonen et al., 2013).”
BackgroundZhang, Q., Peters, J. L., Visser, E. J. W., de Kroon, H., & Huber, H. (2016) · Journal of Ecology · doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12648 · Cited by 20
“We also appreciate the advice on QST-FST comparison from Philippine Vergeer and Rafael Rubio de Casas.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialGarbelotto, M., Rocca, G. D., Osmundson, T., di Lonardo, V., & Danti, R. (2015) · Ecosphere · doi:10.1890/es14-00426.1 · Cited by 24
“0 suggests directional selection on the trait, and QST-FST , 0 suggests stabilizing selection on the trait (Leinonen et al. 2013).”
BackgroundMethodCooper, H. F., Best, R. J., Andrews, L. V., Corbin, J. P. M., Garthwaite, I. J., Grady, K. C., Gehring, C. A., Hultine, K. R., Whitham, T. G., & Allan, G. J. (2022) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.16645 · Cited by 27
“The result of QST > FST for many ecological traits is consistent with other studies (Leinonen et al., 2013; McKay & Latta, 2002; Savolainen et al., 2007).”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialFreeman, J., Hamilton, M., Lee, D. J., Pegg, G., Brawner, J., Tilyard, P., & Potts, B. (2018) · New Phytologist · doi:10.1111/nph.15557 · Cited by 23
Ozerov, M. Y., Himberg, M., Aykanat, T., Сендек, Д. С., Hägerstrand, H., Verliin, A., Krause, T., Olsson, J., Primmer, C. R., & Vasemägi, A. (2015) · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · doi:10.1111/jeb.12645 · Cited by 20
“…by environmental factors and genotype–environment interactions when measured in the wild and, thus, its use as a phenotypic analogue of QST has been questioned (Pujol et al., 2008) due to underestimation of within-population and overestimation of among-population variances (Leinonen et al., 2013).”
BackgroundInfluentialDemonstration of local adaptation in maize landraces by reciprocal transplantation
Janzen, G. M., Aguilar-Rangel, M. R., Cíntora-Martínez, G., Juárez-Núñez, K. A., González‐Segovia, E., Studer, A. J., Runcie, D. E., Flint-Garcia, S. A., Rellán‐Álvarez, R., Sawers, R. J. H., et al. (2022) · Evolutionary Applications · doi:10.1111/eva.13372 · Cited by 38
“…population variances were calculated with the R function VarCorr (R package lme4, Bates et al., 2014), and were used to calculate QST following the equation below: in which σGB 2 and σGW 2 are the between- and within- population genetic variance components, respectively (Leinonen et al., 2013).”
BackgroundMethodLea, A. J., Peng, J., & Ayroles, J. F. (2022) · Genome Research · doi:10.1101/gr.276430.121 · Cited by 25
“…to understand whether ancestry-related variation in the transcriptome (i.e., putatively genetically controlled) showed evidence for being driven by genetic drift (P ST = F ST ), diversifying selection (P ST > F ST ), or stabilizing selection (P ST < F ST ) (Lamy et al. 2012; Leinonen et al. 2013).”
InfluentialYıldırım, Y., Tinnert, J., & Forsman, A. (2018) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.4667 · Cited by 22
Schielzeth, H., Villamil, A. R., & Burri, R. (2018) · Molecular Ecology Resources · doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12780 · Cited by 57
From top to bottom: Do Lake Trout diversify along a depth gradient in Great Bear Lake, NT, Canada?
Chavarie, L., Howland, K., Harris, L., Hansen, M. J., Harford, W. J., Gallagher, C., Baillie, S., Malley, B. K., Tonn, W., Muir, A. M., et al. (2018) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0193925 · Cited by 22
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“QST–FST comparison conducted with molecular and phenotypic makers also provides a popular means of investigating the main factors of the observed phenotypic differentiation for researchers (Leinonen et al., 2013).”
BackgroundNoguerales, V., García-Navas, V., Cordero, P. J., & Ortego, J. (2016) · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · doi:10.1111/jeb.12915 · Cited by 22
The Influence of Genetic Drift and Selection on Quantitative Traits in a Plant Pathogenic Fungus
Stefánsson, T., McDonald, B., & Willi, Y. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112523 · Cited by 22
“Several meta-analyses have been performed on QST/FST studies [2–4,12].”
MethodWu, E.-J., Wang, Y.-P., Yang, L.-N., Zhao, M.-Z., & Zhan, J. (2022) · Journal of Fungi · doi:10.3390/jof8080808 · Cited by 21
“The higher genetic differentiation in aggressiveness compared to SSR markers suggests that the observed difference is caused by diversifying selection [41,79,80], and local air temperature might be one of the selection agents, as indicated by the strong association between the thermal biology of the pathogen and the a…”
BackgroundGenome‐wide methylation in the panmictic European eel (Anguilla anguilla)
Liu, S., Tengstedt, A. N. B., Jacobsen, M. W., Pujolar, J. M., Jónsson, B., Lobón‐Cerviá, J., Bernatchez, L., & Hansen, M. M. (2022) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.16586 · Cited by 27
“PST is a measure of phenotypic differentiation between groups (Leinonen et al., 2013; Pujol et al., 2008), here accommodated to evaluate methylation divergence between groups in developmental stage or hybridity and calculated using a custom script in R.”
MethodBouteiller, X. P., Moret, F., Ségura, R., Klisz, M., Martiník, A., Monty, A., Pino, J., van Loo, M., Wojda, T., Porté, A. J., et al. (2021) · Plant Biology · doi:10.1111/plb.13332 · Cited by 25
Machado, F. A., Marroig, G., & Hubbe, A. (2021) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.2521 · Cited by 21
Parallel and population-specific gene regulatory evolution in cold-adapted fly populations
Huang, Y., Lack, J., Hoppel, G. T., & Pool, J. (2021) · Genetics · doi:10.1093/genetics/iyab077 · Cited by 21
“Although both within-and between-population components of variance can be confounded by the environmental variance, P ST is still a useful statistic to quantify phenotypic differentiation (Lande 1992; Spitze 1993; Merila¨ 1997; Brommer 2011; Leinonen et al. 2013).”
Polygenic adaptation of rosette growth in Arabidopsis thaliana
Wieters, B., Steige, K. A., He, F., Koch, E. M., Ramos-Onsins, S. E., Gu, H., Guo, Y., Sunyaev, S. R., & de Meaux, J. (2021) · PLoS Genetics · doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008748 · Cited by 23
“We thus ranked genes either by Fst between Spain and Northern Europe or by the GWAS p-value of the closest SNP, and determined enriched GO categories.”
MethodInfluentialSeymour, M., Räsänen, K., & Kristjánsson, B. (2019) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.5381 · Cited by 21
“If QST = FST, genetic drift is assumed to play a primary role, whereas if QST < FST, stabilizing selection is believed to be at play (Brommer, 2011; Leinonen et al., 2013; Spitze, 1993).”
BackgroundMethodLocal adaptation through genetic differentiation in highly fragmented Tilia cordata populations
Lobo, A., Hansen, O., Hansen, J. K., Erichsen, E. O., Jacobsen, B. H., & Kjær, E. (2018) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.4131 · Cited by 21
“…minimum temperatures in spring at the original population site indicate directional selection among T. cordata populations (Alberto et al., 2013; Leinonen et al., 2013; Whitlock & Guillaume, 2009), although the indications of low gene flow suggest that genetic drift can also have been important…”
BackgroundSingh, A., & Roy, S. (2017) · BMC Ecology · doi:10.1186/s12898-017-0149-5 · Cited by 21
“Although the method of estimation has been criticized for its biasness due to its inherent theoretical caveats, but still it is commonly used to identify the adaptive traits [51, 52].”
MethodTracking modern human population history from linguistic and cranial phenotype
Reyes-Centeno, H., Harvati, K., & Jäger, G. (2016) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/srep36645 · Cited by 21
Yang, J., Guo, B., Shikano, T., Liu, X., & Merilä, J. (2016) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/srep26632 · Cited by 19
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Marin, S., Gibert, A., Archambeau, J., Bonhomme, V., Lascoste, M., & Pujol, B. (2020) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.15546 · Cited by 19
“F ST comparisons to detect potential adaptation to local sites conditions (reviewed in Leinonen et al., 2013) and also more recent methods to insure that our findings were robust against a range of neutral evolution scenarios for these traits (Whitlock, 2008).”
Nickolas, H., Williams, D. A., Downes, G. M. D. M., Harrison, P., Vaillancourt, R., & Potts, B. M. (2020) · doi:10.1080/00049158.2020.1808276 · Cited by 20
Amaral, F. R. D., Maldonado-Coelho, M., Aleixo, A., Luna, L. W., Rêgo, P., Araripe, J., Souza, T. O., Silva, W. A. G., & Thom, G. (2018) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.14843 · Cited by 20
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Signatures of selection in embryonic transcriptomes of lizards adapting in parallel to cool climate
Feiner, N., Rago, A., While, G., & Uller, T. (2018) · Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · doi:10.1111/evo.13397 · Cited by 20
Hormonally active phytochemicals and vertebrate evolution
Lambert, M., & Edwards, T. M. (2017) · Evolutionary Applications · doi:10.1111/eva.12469 · Cited by 20
Milano, E. R., Kenney, A., & Juenger, T. (2016) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.13752 · Cited by 20
“QST-FST comparisons must be completed using a rigorous statistical test (Meril€a & Crnokrak 2001; O’Hara & Meril€a 2005); in particular, a key assumption is that the distribution of QST for neutral traits is equivalent to that of neutral FST markers (Whitlock 1999, 2008; Leinonen et al. 2013).”
MethodSilva, J. C. E., Potts, B., Harrison, P., & Bailey, T. G. (2019) · Forests · doi:10.3390/f10121145 · Cited by 19
Adaptive phenotypic divergence in an annual grass differs across biotic contexts*
O'Brien, A., Sawers, R. J. H., Strauss, S. Y., & Ross‐Ibarra, J. (2019) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/evo.13818 · Cited by 28
Testing Modern Human Out-of-Africa Dispersal Models Using Dental Nonmetric Data
Reyes‐Centeno, H., Rathmann, H., Hanihara, T., & Harvati, K. (2017) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/694423 · Cited by 20
“These final values, PST, are analogous to FST in population genetics, reflecting the apportionment of phenotypic or genetic variation between populations (Leinonen et al. 2013; Roseman and T ab le 2.”
ResultLai, X.-J., Schnable, J., Liao, Z., Xu, J., Zhang, G.-Y., Li, C., Hu, E.-L., Rong, T., Xu, Y.-B., & Lu, Y.-L. (2017) · BMC Genomics · doi:10.1186/s12864-017-4103-x · Cited by 19
“Applying a strict outlier definition, a 99% confidence interval was used for Fst distribution, ensuring a more accurate comparison between Qst and Fst.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialMichalski, S. G., Malyshev, A. V., & Kreyling, J. (2017) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.2936 · Cited by 19
“plasticity Adaptive divergence and signatures of selection can be detected by comparing differentiation at quantitative traits with that expected under neutrality (Leinonen et al., 2013).”
BackgroundEdge, & Rosenberg (2015) · Human Biology · doi:10.13110/humanbiology.87.4.0313 · Cited by 18
“…in humans (Roseman 2004; Roseman and Weaver 2004; Weaver et al. 2007; Relethford 2010) and other organisms (for reviews, see Whitlock 2008; Leinonen et al. 2013), finding that, in the absence of selection, the expected degree to which groups differ on an additive, genetically determined…”
BackgroundMethodNatural selection drives population divergence for local adaptation in a wheat pathogenPreprint
Pereira, D., Croll, D., Brunner, P., & McDonald, B. (2019) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/805127 · Cited by 18
“53 A better understanding of which evolutionary forces are driving local adaptation 54 for a particular trait can be achieved using QST - FST comparisons (Zhan et al., 2005; 55 Leinonen et al., 2008; Leinonen et al., 2013; Stefansson et al., 2014; Yang et al., 2016).”
BackgroundCaré, O., Müller, M., Vornam, B., Höltken, A., Kahlert, K., Krutovsky, K., Gailing, O., & Leinemann, L. (2018) · Forests · doi:10.3390/f9120752 · Cited by 18
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“To compare the degree of phenotypic differentiation (PST) to neutral molecular differentiation (FST; Leinonen et al., 2013), the method of Whitlock & Guillaume (2009) was used.”
BackgroundMethodSelf-citationBouétard, A., Côte, J., Besnard, A., Collinet, M., & Coutellec, M. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106670 · Cited by 24
“However, as complex traits seem to vary mostly additively [91,92], we hypothesized, as done in most QST-FST comparisons [46], that neglecting these sources of variation would have little consequences.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialMolecular Signatures of Adaptation and Selection in Forest Trees
Jaramillo‐Correa, J. P., Prunier, J., Vázquez‐Lobo, A., Keller, S. R., & Moreno‐Letelier, A. (2015) · Advances in botanical research · doi:10.1016/bs.abr.2015.04.003 · Cited by 20
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“Traditionally, it has been considered that the homogenizing effect of gene flow prevents genetic divergence of populations (Lenormand, 2002; Sultan & Spencer, 2002).”
BackgroundYe, Q., Tang, F., Wei, N., & Yao, X. (2013) · Annals of Botany · doi:10.1093/aob/mct255 · Cited by 20
“…QST estimates were of the same magnitude as FST for two morphological traits (stem colour and shape of the largest leaf), which stood in contrast with the general findings of pronounced positive QST–FST differences for morphological characters (Merilä and Crnokrak, 2001; Leinonen et al., 2013).”
BackgroundResultSchraiber, J. G., & Edge, M. D. (2023) · doi:10.1101/2023.11.06.565864 · Cited by 16
“Thus, by testing whether Q ST is significantly greater than F ST , it is possible to determine whether there is more genetically explained trait variation among populations than expected under neutral evolution (Leinonen et al., 2013; Prout & Barker, 1993; Spitze, 1993; Whitlock, 2008).”
Dahms, C., Kemppainen, P., Zanella, L., Zanella, D., Carosi, A., Merilä, J., & Momigliano, P. (2021) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.16295 · Cited by 16
“Allele frequency changes caused by adaptive evolution have extensively shaped patterns of genetic variation and adaptive radiations in the wild (Hughes, 1999; Leinonen et al., 2013; Mayr, 1963; Merilä & Crnokrak, 2001).”
BackgroundSelf-citationMulti-omics analysis provides insights into genetic architecture of flavonoid metabolites in Populus
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Genetic rescue insights from population- and family-level hybridization effects in brook trout
Wells, Z. R. R., Bernos, T. A., Yates, M., & Fraser, D. (2019) · Conservation Genetics · doi:10.1007/s10592-019-01179-z · Cited by 16
Spatial Structure of Morphological and Neutral Genetic Variation in Brook Trout
Kazyak, D., Hilderbrand, R., Keller, S. R., Colaw, M. C., Holloway, A., Morgan, R., & King, T. (2015) · doi:10.1080/00028487.2015.1012300 · Cited by 16
Morimoto, N., de León, M. S. P., & Zollikofer, C. P. E. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102074 · Cited by 19
“The question is whether QST is equal to, smaller than, or larger than FST, which indicates neutral evolution, uniform or stabilizing selection, and diversifying selection, respectively [65].”
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“The rationale for the QST-FST comparisons is to identify candidate transcripts under stabilizing or divergent selection (Leinonen et al. 2013).”
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Habel, J., Borghesio, L., Newmark, W., Day, J. J., Lens, L., Husemann, M., & Ulrich, W. (2015) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.1735 · Cited by 15
“Our data suggest that the divergence of the studied phenotypic traits may be mainly driven by selection and not stochastic processes, which drive the divergence of neutral traits, in our case microsatellites (Leinonen et al. 2006, 2008, 2013; Sæther et al. 2007).”
BackgroundWalisch, T., Colling, G., Bodenseh, M., & Matthies, D. (2015) · Annals of Botany · doi:10.1093/aob/mcv040 · Cited by 15
“…in agreement with the conclusions of general meta-analyses of the role of selection for population differentiation in plants (Merilä and Crnokrak, 2001; Leinonen et al., 2008, 2013; De Kort et al., 2013), but in contrast to the results of other studies on rare plant species (Gravuer et al., 2005).”
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“F ST (Wright, 1951 ) quantifies population differentiation in molecular markers, caused by neutral evolutionary processes (Leinonen et al., 2013 ; Whitlock, 2008 ).”
BackgroundCastellani, M. B., Vecchia, A. D., Bolpagni, R., Natale, R., Piaser, E., Lastrucci, L., Coppi, A., & Villa, P. (2023) · Freshwater Biology · doi:10.1111/fwb.14162 · Cited by 14
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Selective differentiation during the colonization and establishment of a newly invasive species
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Mathematical constraints on FST: multiallelic markers in arbitrarily many populations
Alcala, N., & Rosenberg, N. (2016) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0414 · Cited by 13
Low Temperature Tolerance in the Perennial Sunflower Helianthus maximiliani
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“A role for natural selection in shaping clinal variation in this species is supported by patterns of phenotypic differentiation among populations that exceed neutral expectations estimated from putatively neutral mo‐ lecular markers, i.e., Qst — Fst analysis (Leinonen et al., 2013).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Leinonen, T., McCairns, R. J. S., O'Hara, R. B., & Merilä, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Merilä, Juha
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Genetics
- Published
- 2013-02-05
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 179-190
- ISSN
- 1471-0056 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0064
- OpenAlex
- W2018112412
- Cited by
- 422
- References
- 122
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- FWCI
- 4.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Reviews Genetics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Keywords
- QST-FST comparison, natural selection, genetic drift, genetic differentiation, polygenic traits, genomic heterogeneity, evolutionary genetics, ecological genetics, omics data analysis
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Ecology, Genetic Markers, Genetics, Population, Humans, Selection, Genetic, Genetic Variation, Genetic Heterogeneity, Evolution, Molecular, Genomics, Quantitative Trait Loci, Genetic Drift
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