This Week in PNAS: Apr 11, 2017

Apr 11, 2017

In the early, online edition of the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Sweden, Canada, and the US explore genetic patterns associated with adaptive evolution in Atlantic herring. The team re-sequenced the genomes of 40 to 50 fish apiece from half a dozen Atlantic herring population at sites in the North Atlantic.

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