On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps II: Examining recent evidence from humans, flies, and viruses.

Since the initial description of the genomic patterns expected under models of positive selection acting on standing genetic variation and on multiple beneficial mutations-so-called soft selective sweeps-researchers have sought to identify these patterns in natural population data. Indeed, over the...

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Main Authors: Rebecca B Harris, Andrew Sackman, Jeffrey D Jensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-12-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007859