Genetic Diversity

Eviatar Nevo

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00065-4

Genetic Diversity

Eviatar Nevo

Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology

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Abstract

Genetic diversity (i.e., molecular hereditary differences within or between populations) is the basis of evolutionary change. The nature of genetic diversity among organisms has always been the basic problem of evolutionary genetics as well as of domestication, agriculture, and medicine. However, despite its cardinal role in evolutionary theory and application, the maintenance of genetic diversity remains largely enigmatic, notwithstanding the dramatic discoveries of molecular biology, which revealed abundant genetic diversity in nature.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
Subtitle of host publication	Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	662-677
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9780123847195
ISBN (Print)	9780123847201
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00065-4
State	Published - 2001

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Keywords

Electrophoresis
Enigma
Genetic diversity
Genomics
Molecular evolution

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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