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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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Autores principales: Lawrie, David S., Messer, Philipp W., Hershberg, Ruth, Petrov, Dmitri A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23737754
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003527