Evolutionary models accounting for layers of selection in protein-coding genes and their impact on the inference of positive selection.

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The selective forces acting on a protein-coding gene are commonly inferred using evolutionary codon models by contrasting the rate of nonsynonymous substitutions to the rate of synonymous substitutions. These models usually assume that the synonymous substitution rate, Ks, is homogenous across all sites, which is justified if synonymous sites are free from selection. However, a growing body of evidence indicates...

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