Natural Selection, Selective Neutrality, & Genetic Drift in Finite Populations

Theory of Selective Neutrality: the Neutral Equation

Trajectory of a neutral allele

Replicate trajectories of neutral alleles from f(B) = 0.50

Replicate trajectories of rare neutral alleles
from f(B) = 0.01

Fixation of a rare advantageous allele, with variable s with respect to N

Fate of a single novel allele (N = 100, 2N = 200 alleles, f(B= 0.005) under
   
strong positive selection    (s = -0.100)
 

    weak positive selection      (s = -0.010
    weak negative selection     (s =  0.010)  
   
strong negative selection   (s =  0.100)

Fixation of Neutral alleles by selection
        "
Selective Sweep" without recombination
        "Hitchhiking" with recombination


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