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Whole-Genome Hitchhiking on an Organelle Mutation.
Current biology : CB - 23 May 2016
Flood Pádraic J, van Heerwaarden Joost, Becker Frank, de Snoo C Bastiaan, Harbinson Jeremy, Aarts Mark G M
Abstract excerpt
Strong selection on a beneficial mutation can cause a selective sweep, which fixes the mutation in the population and reduces the genetic variation in the region flanking the mutation [1-3]. These flanking regions have increased in frequency due to their physical association with the selected loci, a phenomenon called "genetic hitchhiking" [4]. Theoretically, selection could extend the hitchhiking to unlinked...
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