The effect of selective sweeps on the variance of the allele distribution of a linked multiallele locus: hitchhiking of microsatellites.

Abstract excerpt

Microsatellite variation and the mechanisms which are responsible for this variation have received much attention in the last few years. Most theoretical studies of microsatellite allele distributions, however, did not incorporate the evolutionary dynamics of linked sites. The dynamics is usually...

Topics

• Alleles
• Animals
• Bias
• Drosophila
• Genetic Linkage
• Genetic Variation
• Microsatellite Repeats
• Mutation
• Recombination, Genetic
• Reproducibility of Results
• Selection, Genetic