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So very proud of @rileymcorcoran.bsky.social for publishing her beautiful masters thesis work!! @official-smbe.bsky.social academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-.... Repeated positive selection in landlocked alewives is rare, but balancing selection acts on a set of genes from a single gene family.
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Multiple modes of selection underlie repeated and human-mediated adaptation in a formerly migratory fish
Abstract. The extent to which we can predict evolution is crucial in our era of rapid anthropogenic change. Alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) in the Atlantic