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Chapter category: Bioinformatics
Limitations and Potential for the Identification of Ecologically Important Genes
Chapter authors:
Christian Schlotterer
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A recent series of publications demonstrated that identification of genomic regions
subjected to positive selection (hitchhiking mapping) is possible and could be applied
in an ecological context. This review focuses on the use of microsatellite markers in
genome scans for the identification of beneficial mutations. The pitfalls and potential of the
lnR? test statistic are discussed as well as different approaches for the identification of the
molecular change(s) underlying an observed selective sweep.
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