Review
Nature Reviews Genetics 4, 981-994 (December 2003) | doi:10.1038/nrg1226
The power and promise of population genomics: from genotyping to genome typing
Gordon Luikart1, Phillip R. England1, David Tallmon1, Steve Jordan1 & Pierre Taberlet1 About the authors
Abstract
Population genomics has the potential to improve studies of evolutionary genetics, molecular ecology and conservation biology, by facilitating the identification of adaptive molecular variation and by improving the estimation of important parameters such as population size, migration rates and phylogenetic relationships. There has been much excitement in the recent literature about the identification of adaptive molecular variation using the population-genomic approach. However, the most useful contribution of the genomics model to population genetics will be improving inferences about population demography and evolutionary history.
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Author affiliations
- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Génomique des Populations et Biodiversit´, CNRS UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, B.P. 53, F-38041 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France.
Correspondence to: Gordon Luikart1 Email: gordon.luikart@ujf-grenoble.fr
