The classical hitchhiking model with continuous mutational pressure and purifying selection

Abstract Detecting selective sweeps driven by strong positive selection and localizing the targets of selection in the genome play a major role in modern population genetics and genomics. Most of these analyses are based on the classical model of genetic hitchhiking proposed by Maynard Smith and Hai...

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Published in:Ecology and Evolution
Main Author: Wolfgang Stephan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-11-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8259