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Selective sweep in the Flotillin-2 region of European Drosophila melanogaster.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Werzner Annegret, Pavlidis Pavlos, Ometto Lino, Stephan Wolfgang, Laurent Stefan
Abstract excerpt
Localizing genes that are subject to recent positive selection is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In the model organism Drosophila melanogaster many attempts have been made in recent years to identify such genes by conducting so-called genome scans of selection. These analyses consisted in typing a large number of genetic markers along the genomes of a sample of individuals and then identifying those loci...
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