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Progress and prospects in mapping recent selection in the genome.
Heredity - 1 Jun 2007
Thornton K R, Jensen J D, Becquet C, Andolfatto P
Abstract excerpt
One of the central goals of evolutionary biology is to understand the genetic basis of adaptive evolution. The availability of nearly complete genome sequences from a variety of organisms has facilitated the collection of data on naturally occurring genetic variation on the scale of hundreds of loci to whole genomes. Such data have changed the focus of molecular population genetics from making inferences about...
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