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Genetic hitchhiking and the dynamic buildup of genomic divergence during speciation with gene flow.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2013
Flaxman Samuel M, Feder Jeffrey L, Nosil Patrik
Abstract excerpt
A major issue in evolutionary biology is explaining patterns of differentiation observed in population genomic data, as divergence can be due to both direct selection on a locus and genetic hitchhiking. "Divergence hitchhiking" (DH) theory postulates that divergent selection on a locus reduces gene flow at physically linked sites, facilitating the formation of localized clusters of tightly linked, diverged loci....
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