A new test for selection applied to codon usage in Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana.

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In many organisms, synonymous codon usage is biased by a history of natural selection. However, codon bias, itself, does not indicate that selection is ongoing; it may be a vestige of past selection. Simple statistical tests have been devised to infer ongoing selection on codon usage by comparing the derived state frequency spectra at polymorphic sites segregating either derived preferred codons or derived...

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