Hitchhiking of deleterious mutations within chromosomal inversions.

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The suppression of recombination can have the benefit of associating multiple adaptive alleles but at the cost of increasing linkage between beneficial and deleterious alleles. Chromosomal inversions provide a natural genomic context to study such genetic hitchhiking. Inversions suppress recombination in heterokaryotypes, effectively creating large linkage blocks that behave like partially asexual regions....

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