Are Nonsense Alleles of Drosophila melanogaster Genes under Any Selection?
N. Potapova, M. Andrianova, G. Bazykin, A. Kondrashov
The paper measures negative selection on nonsense alleles in Drosophila melanogaster and finds relaxed selection with functional preservation via alternative splicing.
bioRxiv · Dec 11, 2017Evolutionary Biology