Entries from 2013-10-01 to 1 month

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soft sweep

Messer PW & Petrov DA 2013 Population genomics of rapid adaptation by soft selective sweeps. TREE 28:659-669. contemporary evolutionary biology is afflicted by an odd dichotomy experimental evidence suggests that adaptation via selective s…

forward-in-time simulation

Messer PW 2013 SLiM: simulating evolution with selection and linkage. Genetics 194:1037-1039. in a forward simulation, every individual in the population is followed explicitly this is computationally more intensive than coalescent approac…