Strong purifying selection at synonymous sites in D. melanogaster.

Synonymous sites are generally assumed to be subject to weak selective constraint. For this reason, they are often neglected as a possible source of important functional variation. We use site frequency spectra from deep population sequencing data to show that, contrary to this expectation, 22% of f...

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Main Authors: David S Lawrie, Philipp W Messer, Ruth Hershberg, Dmitri A Petrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3667748?pdf=render