Positive selection occurs when an allele is favored by natural selection. The frequency of the
favored allele increases in the population and due to genetic hitchhiking the neighboring …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Signatures of positive selection in the genome are a characteristic mark of adaptation that
can reveal an ongoing, recent, or ancient response to environmental change throughout the …

Natural selection shapes patterns of genetic variation among individuals, populations, and
species, and it does so differentially across genomes. The field of population genomics …

Prediction accuracy of genomic selection (GS) has been previously evaluated through
simulation and cross‐validation; however, validation based on progeny performance in a …

The rapid spread of a novel black form (known as carbonaria) of the peppered moth Biston
betularia in 19th-century Britain is a textbook example of how an altered environment may …

A major goal of population genomics is to reconstruct the history of natural populations and
to infer the neutral and selective scenarios that can explain the present-day polymorphism …

The statistical associations between mutations, collectively known as linkage disequilibrium,
encode important information about the evolutionary forces acting within a population. Yet in …

Key message Rice breeding programs based on pedigree schemes can use a genomic
model trained with data from their working collection to predict performances of progenies …

Reinforcement is the process by which selection against hybridization increases
reproductive isolation between taxa. Much research has focused on demonstrating the …