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Recombination Rate Variation, Hitchhiking, and Demographic History Shape Deleterious Load in Poplar.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2016
Zhang M, Zhou L, Bawa R, Suren H, Holliday J A
Abstract excerpt
Deleterious alleles are expected to be purged by purifying selection or maintained at low frequency. However, many additional evolutionary forces may shape the pattern of deleterious mutations across the genome and among populations, including selection, hitchhiking, recombination, and demographic history. We used exome capture data to estimate the genome-wide distribution of deleterious alleles across natural...
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