Sweeps in Space: Leveraging Geographic Data to Identify Beneficial Alleles in Anopheles gambiae.

Abstract excerpt

As organisms adapt to environmental changes, natural selection modifies the frequency of nonneutral alleles. For beneficial mutations, the outcome of this process may be a selective sweep, in which an allele rapidly increases in frequency and perhaps reaches fixation within a population. Selective sweeps have well-studied effects on patterns of local genetic variation in panmictic populations, but much less is...

Topics

• Animals
• Anopheles
• Selection, Genetic
• Alleles
• Gene Frequency
• Mutation
• Genetic Variation