Local adaptation can cause both peaks and troughs in nucleotide diversity within populations.

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The amount of standing variation present within populations is a fundamental quantity of interest in population genetics, commonly represented by calculating the average number of differences between pairs of nucleotide sequences (nucleotide diversity, π). It is well understood that both background and positive selection can cause reductions in nucleotide diversity, but less clear how local adaptation affects it....

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