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A community-maintained standard library of population genetic models
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Identifying the favored mutation in a positive selective sweep
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Uncovering footprints of natural selection through spectral analysis of genomic summary statistics
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Population genomics: whole-genome analysis of polymorphism and divergence in Drosophila simulans
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Understanding the factors that shape patterns of nucleotide diversity in the house mouse genome
10.1093/molbev/msy188 · 2018 · External reference
A selective sweep across species boundaries in Drosophila
10.1093/molbev/mst123 · 2013 · External reference
The hitchhiking effect on the site frequency spectrum of DNA polymorphisms
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Estimating gene conversion rates from population data using multi-individual identity by descent
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10.1101/2022.07.19.500702 · 2022 · External reference
Estimating the parameters of background selection and selective sweeps in drosophila in the presence of gene conversion
10.1073/pnas.1619434114 · 2017 · External reference
How long does it take to fix a favorable mutation, and why should we care?
10.1086/708187 · 2020 · External reference
Population differentiation as a test for selective sweeps
10.1101/gr.100545.109 · 2010 · External reference
Signatures of selective sweeps in continuous-space populations
10.1093/genetics/iyaf183 · 2025 · External reference
The many landscapes of recombination in Drosophila melanogaster
10.1371/journal.pgen.1002905 · 2012 · External reference
Natural selection constrains neutral diversity across a wide range of species
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Population size rescaling significantly biases outcomes of forward-in-time population genetic simulations
10.1093/genetics/iyae180 · 2025 · External reference
Genome-wide signals of positive selection in human evolution
10.1101/gr.164822.113 · 2014 · External reference
Hitchhiking under positive Darwinian selection
10.1093/genetics/155.3.1405 · 2000 · External reference
The clarifying role of time series data in the population genetics of hiv
10.1371/journal.pgen.1009050 · 2021 · External reference
More effective drugs lead to harder selective sweeps in the evolution of drug resistance in hiv-1
10.7554/elife.10670 · 2016 · External reference
Parameter scaling in population genetics simulations may introduce unintended background selection: considerations for scaled simulation design
10.1093/gbe/evaf097 · 2025 · External reference
On detecting incomplete soft or hard selective sweeps using haplotype structure
10.1093/molbev/msu077 · 2014 · External reference
Xxi.—on the dominance ratio
10.1017/s0370164600023993 · 1923 · External reference
Adaptive protein evolution in animals and the effective population size hypothesis
10.1371/journal.pgen.1005774 · 2016 · External reference
Recent selective sweeps in North American Drosophila melanogaster show signatures of soft sweeps
10.1371/journal.pgen.1005004 · 2015 · External reference
Detection of hard and soft selective sweeps from drosophila melanogaster population genomic data
10.1371/journal.pgen.1009373 · 2021 · External reference
Estimating meiotic gene conversion rates from population genetic data
10.1534/genetics.107.078907 · 2007 · External reference
Genetic drift in an infinite population: the pseudohitchhiking model
10.1093/genetics/155.2.909 · 2000 · External reference
Toward a selection theory of molecular evolution
10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00308.x · 2008 · External reference
A mathematical theory of natural and artificial selection—i
10.1007/bf02459574 · 1924 · External reference
A likelihood approach for uncovering selective sweep signatures from haplotype data
10.1093/molbev/msaa115 · 2020 · External reference
On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps II: examining recent evidence from humans, flies, and viruses
10.1371/journal.pgen.1007859 · 2018 · External reference
Soft sweeps molecular population genetics of adaptation from standing genetic variation
10.1534/genetics.104.036947 · 2005 · External reference
Soft sweeps and beyond: understanding the patterns and probabilities of selection footprints under rapid adaptation
10.1111/2041-210x.12808 · 2017 · External reference
Classic selective sweeps were rare in recent human evolution
10.1126/science.1198878 · 2011 · External reference
The effect of dna sequence polymorphisms on intragenic recombination in the rosy locus of drosophila melanogaster
10.1093/genetics/129.3.779 · 1991 · External reference
Meiotic gene conversion tract length distribution within the rosy locus of drosophila melanogaster
10.1093/genetics/137.4.1019 · 1994 · External reference
Gene expression drives the evolution of dominance
10.1038/s41467-018-05281-7 · 2018 · External reference
Keeping it local: evidence for positive selection in swedish arabidopsis thaliana
10.1093/molbev/msu247 · 2014 · External reference
Evidence for positive selection in the superoxide dismutase (Sod) region of Drosophila melanogaster
10.1093/genetics/136.4.1329 · 1994 · External reference
Pattern of polymorphism after strong artificial selection in a domestication event
10.1073/pnas.0401720101 · 2004 · External reference
Intense and highly localized gene conversion activity in human meiotic crossover hot spots
10.1038/ng1287 · 2004 · External reference
The importance of the neutral theory in 1968 and 50 years on: a response to Kern and Hahn 2018
10.1111/evo.13650 · 2019 · External reference
Revisiting the notion of deleterious sweeps
10.1093/genetics/iyab094 · 2021 · External reference
The rights and wrongs of rescaling in population genetics simulations
10.1371/journal.pgen.1012261 · 2026 · External reference
Soft selective sweeps: addressing new definitions, evaluating competing models, and interpreting empirical outliers
10.1371/journal.pgen.1010022 · 2022 · External reference
The influence of gene conversion on linkage disequilibrium around a selective sweep
10.1534/genetics.108.092270 · 2008 · External reference
The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks
10.1038/nature10944 · 2012 · External reference
A selective sweep in the spike gene has driven sars-cov-2 human adaptation
10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.007 · 2021 · External reference
The “hitchhiking effect” revisited
10.1093/genetics/123.4.887 · 1989 · External reference
Evidence that adaptation in Drosophila is not limited by mutation at single sites
10.1371/journal.pgen.1000924 · 2010 · External reference
A test of neutrality based on interlocus associations
10.1093/genetics/146.3.1197 · 1997 · External reference
The neutral theory in light of natural selection
10.1093/molbev/msy092 · 2018 · External reference
diplos/hic: an updated approach to classifying selective sweeps
10.1534/g3.118.200262 · 2018 · External reference
Linkage disequilibrium as a signature of selective sweeps
10.1534/genetics.103.025387 · 2004 · External reference
Detecting a local signature of genetic hitchhiking along a recombining chromosome
10.1093/genetics/160.2.765 · 2002 · External reference
Evolutionary rate at the molecular level
10.1038/217624a0 · 1968 · External reference
Non-darwinian evolution: most evolutionary change in proteins may be due to neutral mutations and genetic drift
10.1126/science.164.3881.788 · 1969 · External reference
An examination of the constancy of the rate of molecular evolution
10.1007/bf01797451 · 1974 · External reference
Genomic variation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster
10.1534/genetics.112.142018 · 2012 · External reference
Expanding the stdpopsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations
10.7554/elife.84874 · 2023 · External reference
Versatile detection of diverse selective sweeps with flex-sweep
10.1093/molbev/msad139 · 2023 · External reference
Inferring the demographic history and rate of adaptive substitution in Drosophila
10.1371/journal.pgen.0020166 · 2006 · External reference
Natural selection affects multiple aspects of genetic variation at putatively neutral sites across the human genome
10.1371/journal.pgen.1002326 · 2011 · External reference
Strong positive selection in aedes aegypti and the rapid evolution of insecticide resistance
10.1093/molbev/msad072 · 2023 · External reference
Selective strolls: fixation and extinction in diploids are slower for weakly selected mutations than for neutral ones
10.1534/genetics.115.178160 · 2015 · External reference
Effects of rescaling forward-in-time population genetic simulations
10.1093/genetics/iyaf263 · 2026 · External reference
The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene
10.1017/s0016672300014634 · 1974 · External reference
The structure of linkage disequilibrium around a selective sweep
10.1534/genetics.106.062828 · 2007 · External reference
Widespread genomic signatures of natural selection in hominid evolution
10.1371/journal.pgen.1000471 · 2009 · External reference
Whole-genome analysis of individual meiotic events in drosophila melanogaster reveals that noncrossover gene conversions are insensitive to interference and the centromere effect
10.1534/genetics.115.186486 · 2016 · External reference
A whole-chromosome analysis of meiotic recombination in drosophila melanogaster
10.1534/g3.111.001396 · 2012 · External reference
Localizing and classifying adaptive targets with trend filtered regression
10.1093/molbev/msy205 · 2019 · External reference
Genomic scans for selective sweeps using SNP data
10.1101/gr.4252305 · 2005 · External reference
The effect of recombination on background selection
10.1017/s0016672300033619 · 1996 · External reference
Haldane’s sieve and adaptation from the standing genetic variation
10.1093/genetics/157.2.875 · 2001 · External reference
Soft sweeps III: the signature of positive selection from recurrent mutation
10.1371/journal.pgen.0020186 · 2006 · External reference
Soft sweeps II—molecular population genetics of adaptation from recurrent mutation or migration
10.1093/molbev/msj117 · 2006 · External reference
Distinguishing between selective sweeps from standing variation and from a de novo mutation
10.1371/journal.pgen.1003011 · 2012 · External reference
Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations
10.1101/gr.087577.108 · 2009 · External reference
The scale of population structure in arabidopsis thaliana
10.1371/journal.pgen.1000843 · 2010 · External reference
Background selection and biased gene conversion affect more than 95% of the human genome and bias demographic inferences
10.7554/elife.36317 · 2018 · External reference
The signature of positive selection on standing genetic variation
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Classic selective sweeps revealed by massive sequencing in cattle
10.1371/journal.pgen.1004148 · 2014 · External reference
Triallelic population genomics for inferring correlated fitness effects of same site nonsynonymous mutations
10.1534/genetics.115.184812 · 2016 · External reference
Detecting recent positive selection in the human genome from haplotype structure
10.1038/nature01140 · 2002 · External reference
Pervasive adaptive protein evolution apparent in diversity patterns around amino acid substitutions in Drosophila simulans
10.1371/journal.pgen.1001302 · 2011 · External reference
Supervised machine learning reveals introgressed loci in the genomes of Drosophila simulans and D. sechellia
10.1371/journal.pgen.1007341 · 2018 · External reference
S/HIC: robust identification of soft and hard sweeps using machine learning
10.1371/journal.pgen.1005928 · 2016 · External reference
Soft sweeps are the dominant mode of adaptation in the human genome
10.1093/molbev/msx154 · 2017 · External reference
Unresolved reference
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Soft shoulders ahead: spurious signatures of soft and partial selective sweeps result from linked hard sweeps
10.1534/genetics.115.174912 · 2015 · External reference
Deep learning for population genetic inference
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Evolution and functional impact of rare coding variation from deep sequencing of human exomes
10.1126/science.1219240 · 2012 · External reference
A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs
10.1038/nature06258 · 2007 · External reference
Polygenic adaptation to an environmental shift: temporal dynamics of variation under gaussian stabilizing selection and additive effects on a single trait
10.1534/genetics.119.302662 · 2019 · External reference
Robust forward simulations of recurrent hitchhiking
10.1534/genetics.113.156935 · 2014 · External reference
A map of recent positive selection in the human genome
10.1371/journal.pbio.0040072 · 2006 · External reference
Molecular parallelism underlies convergent highland adaptation of maize landraces
10.1093/molbev/msab119 · 2021 · External reference
The genomic landscape of meiotic crossovers and gene conversions in arabidopsis thaliana
10.7554/elife.01426 · 2013 · External reference
Non-crossover gene conversions show strong gc bias and unexpected clustering in humans
10.7554/elife.04637 · 2015 · External reference
Soft selective sweeps in complex demographic scenarios
10.1534/genetics.114.165571 · 2014 · External reference
Evolution in mendelian populations
10.1093/genetics/16.2.97 · 1931 · External reference
Discovery of ongoing selective sweeps within anopheles mosquito populations using deep learning
10.1093/molbev/msaa259 · 2021 · External reference
