Spatial soft sweeps: Patterns of adaptation in populations with long-range dispersal.

Adaptation in extended populations often occurs through multiple independent mutations responding in parallel to a common selection pressure. As the mutations spread concurrently through the population, they leave behind characteristic patterns of polymorphism near selected loci-so-called soft sweep...

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Main Authors: Jayson Paulose, Joachim Hermisson, Oskar Hallatschek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6386408?pdf=render