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gene-specific sweep: a standalone construct

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Microbial genomics

a favored gene spreads through a population by recombination without dragging the whole genome with it.

In microbial genomics, gene-specific sweep refers to a favored gene spreads through a population by recombination without dragging the whole genome with it. This meaning comes from Shapiro (2012) in Science.[1]

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References

Shapiro, B. J., Friedman, J., Cordero, O. X., Preheim, S. P., Timberlake, S. C., Szabó, G., Polz, M. F., & Alm, E. J. (2012). Population Genomics of Early Events in the Ecological Differentiation of Bacteria. Science, 336(6077), 48-51. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1218198

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