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The hitch-hiking effect – a reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

John Haigh  and
John Maynard Smith
John Haigh
Affiliation:
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG
John Maynard Smith
Affiliation:
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG
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We have no serious disagreement with the mathematical arguments presented by Ohta & Kimura (1975). We do, however, have reservations about their conclusions that ‘the hitch-hiking effect is generally unimportant as a mechanism for reducing heterozygosity’, and still prefer our own approach (Maynard Smith & Haigh, 1974).

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 1976 , pp. 85 - 87
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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