Recent selective sweeps in North American Drosophila melanogaster show signatures of soft sweeps.

Adaptation from standing genetic variation or recurrent de novo mutation in large populations should commonly generate soft rather than hard selective sweeps. In contrast to a hard selective sweep, in which a single adaptive haplotype rises to high population frequency, in a soft selective sweep mul...

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Main Authors: Nandita R Garud, Philipp W Messer, Erkan O Buzbas, Dmitri A Petrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005004&type=printable
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