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Selective Sweep


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Dmitry Nurminsky
Tufts University

This book is co-published with Springer.

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ISBN: 978-0-306-48235-9
Pub date: 2005-01-26
121 pages
30 figures
1 color pages

Table of contents

1. Inferring Evolutionary History through Inter- and Intraspecific DNA Sequence Comparison: The Drosophila janus and ocnus Genes
John Parsch, Colin D. Meiklejohn and Daniel L. Hartl

2. Rapid Evolution of Sex-Related Genes: Sexual Conflict or Sex-Specific Adaptations?
Alberto Civetta and Rama S. Singh

3. Selective Sweep in the Evolution of a New Sperm-Specific Gene in Drosophila
Rob J. Kulathinal, Stanley A. Sawyer, Carlos D. Bustamante, Dmitry Nurminsky, Rita Ponce, José M. Ranz and Daniel L. Hartl

4. Detecting Selective Sweeps with Haplotype Tests: Hitchhiking and Haplotype Tests
Frantz Depaulis, Sylvain Mousset and Michel Veuille

5. A Novel Test Statistic for the Identification of Local Selective Sweeps Based on Microsatellite Gene Diversity
Christian Schlötterer and Daniel Dieringer

6. Detecting Hitchhiking from Patterns of DNA Polymorphism
 Justin C. Fay and Chung-I Wu

7. Periodic Selection and Ecological Diversity in Bacteria
 Frederick M. Cohan

8. Distribution and Abundance of Polymorphism in the Malaria Genome
Stephen M. Rich

9. Selective Sweeps in Structured Populations—Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Studies
Thomas Wiehe, Karl Schmid and Wolfgang Stephan