Highly Variable Recombinational Landscape Modulates Efficacy of Natural Selection in Birds

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An Alignment Confidence Score Capturing Robustness to Guide Tree Uncertainty

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Comparative genomics based on massive parallel transcriptome sequencing reveals patterns of substitution and selection across 10 bird species

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Quantification of Adaptive Evolution of Genes Expressed in Avian Brain and the Population Size Effect on the Efficacy of Selection

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Pervasive Natural Selection in the Drosophila Genome?

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Quantifying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System

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A Linkage Map of the Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata Provides New Insights Into Avian Genome Evolution

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No effect of recombination on the efficacy of natural selection in primates

(2008) K. Bullaughey et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A high-density SNP-based linkage map of the chicken genome reveals sequence features correlated with recombination rate

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GC-biased gene conversion promotes the fixation of deleterious amino acid changes in primates

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Patterns of Positive Selection in Six Mammalian Genomes

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