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Selective Sweeps

Selective sweep is a population-genetic phenomenon in which a beneficial mutation rapidly increases in frequency to fixation in a population, thereby reducing genetic variation at linked neutral sites due to genetic hitchhiking.

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Selective Sweep

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Barcoding animal life: cytochrome <i>c</i> oxidase subunit 1 divergences among closely related species

Paul D. N. Hebert, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Jeremy R. de Waard · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2003 · 4.5K citations · Full text

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A map of rice genome variation reveals the origin of cultivated rice

Xuehui Huang, Nori Kurata, Xinghua Wei et al. · Nature · 2012 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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Multilocus Methods for Estimating Population Sizes, Migration Rates and Divergence Time, With Applications to the Divergence of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis

Jody Hey, Rasmus Nielsen · Genetics · 2004 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication

Carl‐Johan Rubin, Michael C. Zody, Jonas Eriksson et al. · Nature · 2010 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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The "hitchhiking effect" revisited.

N. Kaplan, R R Hudson, Charles H. Langley · Genetics · 1989 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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    Jeffrey D. Jensen

    Arizona State University, United States

    15 publications · 1.3K citations

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    Dmitri A. Petrov

    Stanford University, United States

    15 publications · 2K citations

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  3. RN
    Rasmus Nielsen

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    14 publications · 6.1K citations

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    Daniel R. Schrider

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    15 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. BC
    Brian Charlesworth

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    12 publications · 1.4K citations

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  1. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    34 h-index

    113 publications

    34.3K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    31 h-index

    130 publications

    13.1K citations

  3. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    27 h-index

    72 publications

    5.3K citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    25 h-index

    74 publications

    11.3K citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    23 h-index

    64 publications

    7.8K citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

    Beijing, China

    21 h-index

    167 publications

    22.9K citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    19 h-index

    38 publications

    4.6K citations

  8. Institut de Biologia Evolutiva

    Barcelona, Spain

    17 h-index

    66 publications

    8.4K citations

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  1. Genetics

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    MBE · 61 publications · 5.1K citations

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  3. Molecular Ecology

    41 publications · 2.9K citations

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  4. PLoS Genetics

    33 publications · 5.4K citations

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  5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 26 publications · 3K citations

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