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Evaluating the contributions of purifying selection and progeny-skew in dictating within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis evolution.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2020
Morales-Arce Ana Y, Harris Rebecca B, Stone Anne C, Jensen Jeffrey D
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The within-host evolutionary dynamics of tuberculosis (TB) remain unclear, and underlying biological characteristics render standard population genetic approaches based upon the Wright-Fisher model largely inappropriate. In addition, the compact genome combined with an absence of recombination is expected to result in strong purifying selection effects. Thus, it is imperative to establish a biologically relevant...
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