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Reconciling theories of dominance with the relative rates of adaptive substitution on sex chromosomes and autosomes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Oct 2024
McDonough Yasmine, Ruzicka Filip, Connallon Tim
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The dominance of beneficial mutations is a key evolutionary parameter affecting the rate and genetic basis of adaptation, yet it is notoriously difficult to estimate. A leading method to infer it is to compare the relative rates of adaptive substitution for X-linked and autosomal genes, which-according to a classic model by Charlesworth et al. (1987)-is a simple function of the dominance of new beneficial...
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