Genome wide analyses reveal little evidence for adaptive evolution in many plant species.

The relative contribution of advantageous and neutral mutations to the evolutionary process is a central problem in evolutionary biology. Current estimates suggest that whereas Drosophila, mice, and bacteria have undergone extensive adaptive evolution, hominids show little or no evidence of adaptive...

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Main Authors: Gossmann, T, Song, B, Windsor, A, Mitchell-Olds, T, Dixon, C, Kapralov, M, Filatov, D, Eyre-Walker, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2010