Long-term balancing selection contributes to adaptation in Arabidopsis and its relatives

Abstract Background In contrast to positive selection, which reduces genetic variation by fixing beneficial alleles, balancing selection maintains genetic variation within a population or species and plays crucial roles in adaptation in diverse organisms. However, which genes, genome-wide, are under...

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Main Authors: Qiong Wu, Ting-Shen Han, Xi Chen, Jia-Fu Chen, Yu-Pan Zou, Zi-Wen Li, Yong-Chao Xu, Ya-Long Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:Genome Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-017-1342-8