Daily Archives: 19 Mar, 2015

dN(eutralist) = dS(electionist) Part 3

In a previous post, I discussed the phenomenon of background selection, which results in rapid expungement of neutral alleles linked to loci under purifying or negative selection, and conversely, the rapid fixation of neutral variants that are linked to loci of … Continue reading

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