The past fifty years have seen the development and application of numerous statistical
methods to identify genomic regions that appear to be shaped by natural selection. These …

Organisms can often adapt surprisingly quickly to evolutionary challenges, such as the
application of pesticides or antibiotics, suggesting an abundant supply of adaptive genetic …

We report the sequencing at 131× coverage, de novo assembly and analyses of the genome
of a female Tibetan wild boar. We also resequenced the whole genomes of 30 Tibetan wild …

Comparing allele frequencies among populations that differ in environment has long been a
tool for detecting loci involved in local adaptation. However, such analyses are complicated …

Despite advances in sequencing, the goal of obtaining a comprehensive view of genetic
variation in populations is still far from reached. We sequenced 180 lines of A. thaliana from …

Although several hundred regions of the human genome harbor signals of positive natural
selection, few of the relevant adaptive traits and variants have been elucidated. Using full …

The detection of molecular signatures of selection is one of the major concerns of modern
population genetics. A widely used strategy in this context is to compare samples from …

The panda lineage dates back to the late Miocene and ultimately leads to only one extant
species, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). Although global climate change and …

Background A number of different statistics are used for detecting natural selection using
DNA sequencing data, including statistics that are summaries of the frequency spectrum …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 36 loci associated with body
mass index (BMI), predominantly in populations of European ancestry. We conducted a …