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Neutrality tests of conservative-radical amino acid changes in nuclear- and mitochondrially-encoded proteins.
Gene - 30 Dec 2000
Rand D M, Weinreich D M, Cezairliyan B O
Abstract excerpt
The neutralist-selectionist debate should not be viewed as a dichotomy but as a continuum. While the strictly neutral model suggests a neutralist-selectionist dichotomy, the nearly neutral model is a continuous model spanning strict neutrality through weak selection (Ns approximately 1) to deterministic selection (Ns>3). We illustrate these points with polymorphism and divergence data from a sample of 73 genes...
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