Contrasting patterns of neutral and functional genetic diversity in stable and disturbed environments.

ABSTRACT: Genetic structure among and diversity within natural populations is influenced by a combination of ecological and evolutionary processes. These processes can differently influence neutral and functional genetic diversity and also vary according to environmental settings. To investigate the roles of interacting processes as drivers of population-level genetic diversity in the wild, we compared neutral and functional structure and diversity between 20 Tetrix undulata pygmy grasshopper populations in disturbed and stable habitats. Genetic differentiation was evident among the different populations, but there was no genetic separation between stable and disturbed environments. The incidence of long-winged phenotypes was higher in disturbed habitats, indicating that these populations wer

SUBMITTER: Yıldırım Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303714 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature