Article
Background selection under evolving recombination rates.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 29 Jun 2022
Booker Tom R, Payseur Bret A, Tigano Anna
Abstract excerpt
Background selection (BGS), the effect that purifying selection exerts on sites linked to deleterious alleles, is expected to be ubiquitous across eukaryotic genomes. The effects of BGS reflect the interplay of the rates and fitness effects of deleterious mutations with recombination. A fundamental assumption of BGS models is that recombination rates are invariant over time. However, in some lineages,...
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