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Long-term balancing selection for pathogen resistance maintains trans-species polymorphisms in a planktonic crustacean.
Nature communications - 22 Jun 2024
Cornetti Luca, Fields Peter D, Du Pasquier Louis, Ebert Dieter
Abstract excerpt
Balancing selection is an evolutionary process that maintains genetic polymorphisms at selected loci and strongly reduces the likelihood of allele fixation. When allelic polymorphisms that predate speciation events are maintained independently in the resulting lineages, a pattern of trans-species polymorphisms may occur. Trans-species polymorphisms have been identified for loci related to mating systems and the...
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