Candidate selective sweeps in US wheat populations [PDF]
The Plant GenomeExploration of novel alleles from ex situ collection is still limited in modern plant breeding as these alleles exist in genetic backgrounds of landraces that are not adapted to modern production environments.
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Versatile Detection of Diverse Selective Sweeps with Flex-Sweep [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022 Abstract Understanding the impacts of selection pressures influencing modern-day genomic diversity is a major goal of evolutionary genomics. In particular, the contribution of selective sweeps to adaptation remains an open question, with persistent statistical limitations on the power and specificity of sweep detection methods. Sweeps
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Sweepstakes reproductive success via pervasive and recurrent selective sweeps [PDF]
eLife, 2023 Highly fecund natural populations characterized by high early mortality abound, yet our knowledge about their recruitment dynamics is somewhat rudimentary.
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Signatures of selective sweeps in continuous-space populations [PDF]
GENETICSAbstract Selective sweeps describe the process by which an adaptive mutation arises and rapidly fixes in the population, thereby removing genetic variation in its genomic vicinity. The expected signatures of selective sweeps are relatively well understood in panmictic population models, yet natural populations often extend across ...
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Soft selective sweeps: Addressing new definitions, evaluating competing models, and interpreting empirical outliers [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2022 The ability to accurately identify and quantify genetic signatures associated with soft selective sweeps based on patterns of nucleotide variation has remained controversial. We here provide counter viewpoints to recent publications in PLOS Genetics that
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Recent selective sweeps in North American Drosophila melanogaster show signatures of soft sweeps. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2015 Adaptation from standing genetic variation or recurrent de novo mutation in large populations should commonly generate soft rather than hard selective sweeps.
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Selective sweep probabilities in spatially expanding populations
Nature CommunicationsEvolution during range expansions shapes biological systems from microbial communities and tumours to invasive species. A fundamental question is whether, when a beneficial mutation arises during a range expansion, it will evade clonal interference and ...
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Selective sweeps on different pigmentation genes mediate convergent evolution of island melanism in two incipient bird species. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2022 Insular organisms often evolve predictable phenotypes, like flightlessness, extreme body sizes, or increased melanin deposition. The evolutionary forces and molecular targets mediating these patterns remain mostly unknown.
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Selective sweeps in growing microbial colonies [PDF]
Physical Biology, 2012 Supplementary information available at arXiv:1204 ...
Korolev, Kirill S. +5 more
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Soft selective sweeps in evolutionary rescue [PDF]
Genetics, 2016 Abstract Evolutionary rescue occurs when a population that is declining in size because of an environmental change is rescued by genetic adaptation. Evolutionary rescue is an important phenomenon at the intersection of ecology and population genetics.
Wilson, Benjamin A. +2 more
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