PURIFYING POPULATIONS. “It is important to keep in mind population size when thinking about whether deleterious mutations are subjected to purifying selection. It is also important to realize that the “effective” population size is dependent on many factors and is typically much lower than the total number of individuals in a species.”
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004351
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022