Entries from 2019-02-01 to 1 month

genome-wide genelaogy

Speidel L, Forest M, Shi S & Myers SR 2019 A method for genome-wide genealogy estimation for thousands of samples. Nat Genet 51:1321-1329. [based on the preprint version downloaded at bioRχiv] all populations show a remarkable increase in …

parallel evolution

Paulose J, Hermisson J & Hallatschek O 2019 Spatial soft sweeps: patterns of adaptation in populations with long-range dispersal. PLoS Genet 15:e1007936. soft sweeps become likely when the time taken for an established mutation to fix in t…

soft sweep

Harris RB, Sackman A & Jensen JD 2018 On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps II: examining recent evidence from humans, flies, and viruses. PLoS Genet 14:e1007859. all three examples are prone to extremely high false-positiv…

selection

Jensen JD, Payseur BA, Stephan W, Aquadro CF, Lynch M, Charlesworth D & Charlesworth B 2019 The importance of the Neutral Theory in 1968 and 50 years on: a response to Kern and Hahn 2018. Evolution 73:111-114. inaccuracies can sometimes mo…