Purifying selection purges harmful variants in the rarest pine
Rengang Zhang, Wei Zhao, Hui Liu, Detuan Liu, Heng Shu, De-Tuan Liu, Zheng-Jiang Liu, Richard Milne, Jun Chen, Xiong-Fang Liu, Hong-Yun Shang, Min-Jie Zhou, Yi-Qing Wang, Hao Yang, Kai‐Hua Jia, , Yongpeng Ma
The paper investigates purifying selection in the rarest pine species, finding efficient purging of harmful variants despite extreme population size reduction.
bioRxiv · Aug 7, 2024 · PreprintGenomics