Adaptation – not by sweeps alone
- 14 September 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Genetics
- Vol. 11 (10) , 665-667
Abstract
There has been recent progress in identifying selective sweeps underlying a range of adaptations. Jonathan Pritchard and Anna Di Rienzo argue that many adaptive events in natural populations may occur by polygenic adaptation, which would largely go undetected by conventional methods for detecting selection.Keywords
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