For although other methods for detecting demographic change, such as Fu's Fs and mismatch distributions, are highly significant for our genes and show distributions of pairwise differences consistent with population expansions, these are highly sensitive to recombination effects.
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Microevolutionary dynamics of a macroevolutionary key innovation in a Lepidopteran herbivore.
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While the high amounts of amino acid diversity suggest there may be significant functional differences among allelic variants segregating within populations, indirect tests of selection could not conclusively identify a signature of historical selection.