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Allele surfing causes maladaptation in a Pacific salmon of conservation concern.
PLoS genetics - 1 Sept 2023
Rougemont Quentin, Leroy Thibault, Rondeau Eric B, Koop Ben, Bernatchez Louis
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How various factors, including demography, recombination or genome duplication, may impact the efficacy of natural selection and the burden of deleterious mutations, is a central question in evolutionary biology and genetics. In this study, we show that key evolutionary processes, including variations in i) effective population size (Ne) ii) recombination rates and iii) chromosome inheritance, have influenced the...
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