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Adaptive Substitution

Adaptive Substitution is a population genetic process in which a beneficial mutation arises, increases in frequency, and ultimately becomes fixed in a population due to natural selection, thereby replacing the ancestral allele.

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Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?

Stephen Jay Gould · Paleobiology · 1980 · 590 citations

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Accelerated Evolution of Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Humans

Shyam Prabhakar, James P. Noonan, Svante Pääbo et al. · Science · 2006 · 507 citations

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Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution

John Hawks, Eric T. Wang, Gregory Cochran et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 470 citations · Full text

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Estimating the Rate of Adaptive Molecular Evolution in the Presence of Slightly Deleterious Mutations and Population Size Change

Adam Eyre‐Walker, Peter D. Keightley · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2009 · 465 citations · Full text

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Inferring the Demographic History and Rate of Adaptive Substitution in Drosophila

Haipeng Li, Wolfgang Stephan · PLoS Genetics · 2006 · 361 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. HA
    H. Allen Orr

    University of Rochester, United States

    4 publications · 616 citations

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  2. NG
    Nicolas Galtier

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    3 publications · 136 citations

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  3. BN
    Benoît Nabholz

    Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, France

    3 publications · 136 citations

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  4. JH
    Joachim Hermisson

    University of Vienna, Austria

    3 publications · 330 citations

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  5. MK
    Michael Kopp

    University of Vienna, Austria

    3 publications · 330 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    8 h-index

    22 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. University of Rochester

    Rochester, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    655 citations

  3. École Pratique des Hautes Études

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    16 publications

    726 citations

  4. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    975 citations

  5. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

    Marseille, France

    4 h-index

    16 publications

    726 citations

  6. Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

    4 h-index

    16 publications

    726 citations

  7. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    763 citations

  8. Institut de Biologia Evolutiva

    Barcelona, Spain

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    847 citations

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  1. Molecular Biology and Evolution

    MBE · 9 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Genetics

    8 publications · 857 citations

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  3. Evolution

    4 publications · 495 citations

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  4. PLoS Genetics

    4 publications · 585 citations

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  5. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

    Repository · 3 publications · 180 citations

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