On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps

2014/10/27 by Jeffrey D. Jensen, Jeffrey D Jensen · 3 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Genetic diversity and population structure

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Citations

• Evidence that Adaptation in Drosophila Is Not Limited by Mutation at Single Sites
• The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
• SweeD: Likelihood-Based Detection of Selective Sweeps in Thousands of Genomes
• Understanding and using quantitative genetic variation
• Molecular Signatures of Natural Selection
• The effect of linkage on limits to artificial selection

Cited by

• Demographically-Based Evaluation of Genomic Regions under Selection in Domestic Dogs
• Soft sweeps predominate recent positive selection in bonobos ( Pan paniscus ) and chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )
• Soft selective sweep [wikipedia]