There’s a thousand genes for that! (Ep 98)
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The Importance of Genome Scans in Sexual Reproduction
The consensus is that sex is favored because it allows selection type of issue. We've been studying populations in the Pyrenees for a long time where there's a narrow hybrid zone if you'd like between populations with magenta flowers populations of yellow. People are actually really trying hard at the moment and not yet succeeding in finding statistical ways to detect this kind of polygenic adaptation we know how to find classical selective sweeps barriers which separates hybridizing populations.
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