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Balancing Selection

Balancing selection is a type of natural selection that maintains genetic polymorphism within a population by favoring the preservation of multiple alleles at a locus, in contrast to directional or purifying selection which promote allele fixation or loss.

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Identifying adaptive genetic divergence among populations from genome scans

Mark Beaumont, David J. Balding · Molecular Ecology · 2004 · 1.1K citations

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ENZYME VARIABILITY IN THE <i>DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI</i> GROUP. IV. GENIC VARIATION IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF <i>DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI</i>

Francisco J. Ayala, Jeffrey R. Powell, Martin L. Tracey et al. · Genetics · 1972 · 805 citations

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The effects of local selection, balanced polymorphism and background selection on equilibrium patterns of genetic diversity in subdivided populations

Brian Charlesworth, Magnus Nordborg, Deborah Charlesworth · Genetics Research · 1997 · 725 citations · Full text

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Role of mutator alleles in adaptive evolution

François Taddéi, Miroslav Radman, John Maynard-Smith et al. · Nature · 1997 · 710 citations · Full text

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Heritable genetic variation via mutation-selection balance: Lerch's zeta meets the abdominal bristle

Michael Turelli · Theoretical Population Biology · 1984 · 619 citations

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    Xavier Vekemans

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

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    Andrew G. Clark

    Cornell University, United States

    14 publications · 1.3K citations

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    Philip W. Hedrick

    Arizona State University, United States

    14 publications · 2.5K citations

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    Brian Charlesworth

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    13 publications · 1.7K citations

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    Deborah Charlesworth

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    11 publications · 1.7K citations

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  1. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    26 h-index

    117 publications

    9K citations

  3. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    22 h-index

    73 publications

    11.9K citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    22 h-index

    52 publications

    5.4K citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    22 h-index

    77 publications

    6K citations

  6. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

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    57 publications

    6.5K citations

  7. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    20 h-index

    40 publications

    9K citations

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    State College, United States

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    33 publications

    2.1K citations

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    PNAS · 42 publications · 5.4K citations

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