Neutral theory suggests that most of the genetic variation in the population is the result of mutation and genetic drift. But what are the implications for interpreting pattterns of genetic variation?
Dear Ellynn,
The recent and very interesting paper by Fujisawa et al. (2014) would be helpful in this regard:
"Ecology has contrasting effects on genetic variation within species versus rates of molecular evolution across species in water beetles"
Best wishes,
Temim
it should be the "nule model" against which other explanations must be compared, if no other landscape feature or ecological process explains better the observed variation, the neutral model appears as the most plausible explanation.
Dear Ellynn
There are many theories explain the biodiversity and evolution, each theory has supporters and others skeptics, and the neutral theory of molecular evolution at molecular level one of these theories, the following link provide a review about this theory, I hope will be useful for you:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjg/66/4/66_4_367/_pdf
Good Luck
Read my book "The Dynamic Genome: A Darwinian approach" published by Oxford Oxford University Press. It contains several explanations throughout related to patterns of genetic variation.
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