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Relaxed Selection

Relaxed Selection is a type of selective pressure in molecular evolution characterized by a reduction in the strength of purifying selection, allowing for the accumulation of deleterious or neutral mutations that would otherwise be eliminated under stronger constraint.

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RELAX: Detecting Relaxed Selection in a Phylogenetic Framework

Joel O. Wertheim, Ben Murrell, Martin D. Smith et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2014 · 841 citations · Full text

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Evidence That Mutation Is Universally Biased towards AT in Bacteria

Ruth Hershberg, Dmitri A. Petrov · PLoS Genetics · 2010 · 536 citations · Full text

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Genetic adaptation to captivity can occur in a single generation

Mark R. Christie, Melanie L. Marine, Rod A. French et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 · 482 citations · Full text

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Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living

Karen M. Kapheim, Hailin Pan, Cai Li et al. · Science · 2015 · 435 citations · Full text

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The interplay of restriction-modification systems with mobile genetic elements and their prokaryotic hosts

Pedro H. Oliveira, Marie Touchon, Eduardo P. C. Rocha · Nucleic Acids Research · 2014 · 360 citations · Full text

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    Sylvain Glémin

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    6 publications · 388 citations

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  2. RH
    Richard H. Post

    University of Michigan, United States

    5 publications · 103 citations

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  3. RG
    Richard G. Coss

    University of California, Davis, United States

    5 publications · 247 citations

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  4. CF
    Charles F. Baer

    University of Florida, United States

    4 publications · 129 citations

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  5. MK
    M. K. Nielsen

    University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

    4 publications · 69 citations

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Institutions

532

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    15 h-index

    77 publications

    3.7K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    10 h-index

    32 publications

    1.8K citations

  3. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    9 h-index

    25 publications

    1.1K citations

  4. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    1.7K citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    784 citations

  6. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    663 citations

  8. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    934 citations

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  1. Molecular Biology and Evolution

    MBE · 23 publications · 1.9K citations

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  2. Evolution

    18 publications · 954 citations

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  3. Genetics

    16 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. BMC Evolutionary Biology

    10 publications · 465 citations

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  5. Genome Biology and Evolution

    GBE · 10 publications · 696 citations

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