Eviatar Nevo

TL;DR: A review of the available data related to SSR distribution in coding and non-coding regions of genomes and SSR functional importance is presented in this article, where the role of two putative mutational mechanisms, replication slippage and recombination, and their interaction in SSR variation is discussed.

TL;DR: SSRs within genes evolve through mutational processes similar to those for SSRs located in other genomic regions including replication slippage, point mutation, and recombination and may provide a molecular basis for fast adaptation to environmental changes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

TL;DR: Analysis of allozymic variation in natural populations of plants, animals, and humans based on studies published prior to early 1976 and involving 243 species, suggests that the amounts of genetic polymorphism and heterozygosity vary nonrandomly between loci, populations, species, habitats, and life zones, and are correlated with ecological heterogeneity.

TL;DR: The evolutionary significance of genetic diversity of proteins in nature remains controversial despite the numerous protein studies conducted electrophoretically during the last two decades.

TL;DR: Examination of genome size and BARE-1 insertion patterns and number in wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum, in Evolution Canyon, Lower Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel, Israel, suggests adaptive selection for increasing genome size through retrotransposon activity is reflected.