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The distinctive footprints of local hitchhiking in a varied environment and global hitchhiking in a subdivided population.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2010
Bierne Nicolas
Abstract excerpt
Loci with higher levels of population differentiation than the neutral expectation are traditionally interpreted as evidence of ongoing selection that varies in space. This article emphasizes an alternative explanation that has been largely overlooked to date: in species subdivided into large subpopulations, enhanced differentiation can also be the signature left by the fixation of an unconditionally favorable...
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