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Global allele polymorphism indicates a high rate of allele genesis at a locus under balancing selection.
Heredity - 1 Jan 2021
Ding Guiling, Hasselmann Martin, Huang Jiaxing, Roberts John, Oldroyd Benjamin P, Gloag Rosalyn
Abstract excerpt
When selection favours rare alleles over common ones (balancing selection in the form of negative frequency-dependent selection), a locus may maintain a large number of alleles, each at similar frequency. To better understand how allelic richness is generated and maintained at such loci, we assessed 201 sequences of the complementary sex determiner (csd) of the Asian honeybee (Apis cerana), sampled from across...
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