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I've just come across this little gem posted in BioRXiv during the summer. Everything I like #LewontinParadox #NeutralEvolution #GeneticDraft #LongRangeHitchhiking #PopGen @darwin
Weak genetic draft and the Lewontin's paradox
by Guillaume Achaz and Emmanuel Schertzer
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.19.549703v3
Weak genetic draft and the Lewontin's paradox
Neutral theory assumes that in a population of size N, diversity results from an equilibrium between new mutations arising at rate μ and genetic drift that purge them at rate 1/N, predicting an equilibrium value proportional to Nμ.bioRxiv