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Landmarks in the history of selective sweeps.
Animal genetics - 1 Dec 2023
Panigrahi Manjit, Rajawat Divya, Nayak Sonali Sonejita, Ghildiyal Kanika, Sharma Anurodh, Jain Karan, Lei Chuzhao, Bhushan Bharat, Mishra Bishnu Prasad, Dutt Triveni
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Half a century ago, a seminal article on the hitchhiking effect by Smith and Haigh inaugurated the concept of the selection signature. Selective sweeps are characterised by the rapid spread of an advantageous genetic variant through a population and hence play an important role in shaping evolution and research on genetic diversity. The process by which a beneficial allele arises and becomes fixed in a...
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