ReviewHeredity2017
Population genetics from 1966 to 2016.
Review in Heredity, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.
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44 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Genomic Differentiation and Diversity in Persian Gulf Hawksbill Turtles (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge.Journal of mammalogy · 2025Article
- A Balanced Inversion Polymorphism Exhibits a Dominance Reversal at the Gene Expression Level that Depends on Developmental Context.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics.Annals of human genetics · 2025Article
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- Epigenetic variation in light of population genetic practice.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Advances in Whole Genome Sequencing: Methods, Tools, and Applications in Population Genomics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- scalepopgen: Bioinformatic Workflow Resources Implemented in Nextflow for Comprehensive Population Genomic Analyses.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Speciation, natural selection, and networks: three historians versus theoretical population geneticists.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2024Review
- Conservation genetics ofEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Harnessing deep learning for population genetic inference.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2024Review
- New section on plant conservation genetics can help to achieve global conservation goals.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Genomic diversity landscapes in outcrossing and selfing Caenorhabditis nematodes.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
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- Inferring genetic structure when there is little: population genetics versus genomics of the threatened bat Miniopterus schreibersii across Europe.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Distinct signals of clinal and seasonal allele frequency change at eQTLs in Drosophila melanogaster.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- Population genomics reveals moderate genetic differentiation between populations of endangered Forest Musk Deer located in Shaanxi and Sichuan.BMC genomics · 2022Article
- The apportionment of citations: a scientometric analysis of Lewontin 1972.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
We describe the astonishing changes and progress that have occurred in the field of population genetics over the past 50 years, slightly longer than the time since the first Population Genetics Group (PGG) meeting in January 1968. We review the major questions and controversies that have preoccupied population geneticists during this time (and were often hotly debated at PGG meetings). We show how theoretical and empirical work has combined to generate a highly productive interaction involving successive developments in the ability to characterise variability at the molecular level, to apply mathematical models to the interpretation of the data and to use the results to answer biologically important questions, even in nonmodel organisms. We also describe the changes from a field that was largely dominated by UK and North American biologists to a much more international one (with the PGG meetings having made important contributions to the increased number of population geneticists in several European countries). Although we concentrate on the earlier history of the field, because developments in recent years are more familiar to most contemporary researchers, we end with a brief outline of topics in which new understanding is still actively developing.
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