Genetic linkage and natural selection
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Genetic linkage and natural selection.
The prevalence of recombination in eukaryotes poses one of the most puzzling questions in biology. The most compelling general explanation is that recombination facilitates selection by breaking down the negative associations generated by random drift (i.e. Hill-Robertson interference, HRI). I classify the effects of HRI owing to: deleterious mutation, balancing selection and selective sweeps o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0106