Statistical tests of neutrality in the age of weak selection

被引:64
作者
Wayne, ML
Simonsen, KL
机构
[1] N Carolina State Univ, Dept Genet, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
[2] N Carolina State Univ, Program Stat Genet, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
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10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01360-3
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Why review statistical tests of neutrality at a time when pan-selectionists and pan-neutralists alike seem to have been replaced by weak selectionists? First, we still don't actually know how variation is maintained at the molecular level; and second, tests of neutrality have a utility for evolutionary biologists beyond the neutralist/selectionist debate. New tests and variations on the existing tests are arising practically every month. From the complementary viewpoints of an empiricist and a theoretician, we sample the recent literature on tests of statistical neutrality and discuss the motivations, applications, assumptions, interpretations and future directions of these tests.
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页码:236 / 240
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