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Looking for Darwin in all the wrong places: the misguided quest for positive selection at the nucleotide sequence level.

Heredity - 1 Oct 2007

Hughes A L

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Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in evidence for positive Darwinian selection at the molecular level. This quest has been hampered by the use of statistical methods that fail adequately to rule out alternative hypotheses, particularly the relaxation of purifying selection and the e...

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PMID: 17622265
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6801031

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