Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 135-141Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13390
Keywords
evolutionary theory; natural selection and contemporary evolution; population dynamics; population genetics-theoretical
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC)
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Recently, there has been increased awareness of the role of background selection (BGS) in both data analysis and modelling advances. However, BGS is still difficult to take into account because of tractability issues with simulations and difficulty with nonequilibrium demographic models. Often, simple rescaling adjustments of effective population size are used. However, there has been neither a proper characterization of how BGS could bias or shift inference when not properly taken into account, nor a thorough analysis of whether rescaling is a sufficient solution. Here, we carry out extensive simulations with BGS to determine biases and behaviour of demographic inference using an approximate Bayesian approach. We find that results can be positively misleading with significant bias, and describe the parameter space in which BGS models replicate observed neutral nonequilibrium expectations.
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