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Population genetics

the fraction of amino acid substitutions between species driven by positive selection, estimated from polymorphism and divergence counts.

In population genetics, proportion of adaptive substitutions refers to the fraction of amino acid substitutions between species driven by positive selection, estimated from polymorphism and divergence counts. This meaning comes from Smith (2002) in Nature.[1]

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References

Smith, N. G. C., & Eyre-Walker, A. (2002). Adaptive protein evolution in Drosophila. Nature, 415(6875), 1022-1024. https://doi.org/10.1038/4151022a

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