Entries from 2012-02-01 to 1 month

effective population size

Karasov T, Messer PW & Petrov DA 2010 Evidence that adaptation in Drosophila is not limited by mutation at single sites. PloS Genet 6:e1000924. the current effective population size of modern D. melanogaster populations is likely to be sub…

population bottleneck

Pavlidis P, Jensen JD & Stephan W 2010 Searching for footprints of positive selection in whole-genome SNP data from nonequilibrium populations. Genetics 185:907-922. in natural populations, positive selection may occur simultaneously with …

absolute fitness

Kim Y & Gulisija D 2010 Signatures of recent directional selection under different models of population expansion during colonization of new selective environments. Genetics 184:571-585. the Wright-Fisher model, or other models of reproduc…