Evolution Chapter 12 Lecture 27

If an A1 allele is higher in frequency than the population

It will continue to increase in frequency

If an A2 allele is lower in frequency than the population

It will decline in frequency

When A1 is dominant and A2 deleterious recessive

A1 will always increase and mask the recessive

If delta p is negative

The allele is decreasing in frequency

If delta p is positive

The allele is increasing in frequency

Equilibrium

The point where we do not expect frequencies to change

Nontrivial equilibrium

Selective forces are equal; 0 and 1

McDonald-Kreitman

If most replacement substitutions are advantageous rather than neutral, they will increase in frequency and be fixed more rapidly than by genetic drift alone

Selective sweep

Rapid fixation of allele, more recently coalesced, positive selection

If you have drift only, with variation maintainted

There will be no linkage disequilibrium

Positive selection

Reduces variation at closely linked sites

Balancing selection

Overdominance; selective maintenance of multiple lineages; greater variation; older than alleles under drift

Background selection

Eliminates neutral variation that is linked to deleterious mutations.

Example of balancing selection

Human-Chimp MHC: the loci of chimp and human allele more closely related to one another.

Chip Aquadro

Sequence analysis of adh genes on fruit flies, compared multiple sequences discovered that linkage and selection combined increase genetic distance therefore selection favors both alleles. Greater genetic variation

Example of evolution in our lifetime

Boston betularia, industrial Melanism, wild type was grey, but with industrial revolution it mutated to black, then went back to grew when factories were cleaned up.