Archival 'n Chips

I said, "You probably won't see any new posts until later next week." Well, today is later this week than yesterday. Also, this post hardly counts as anything new. As you will see, it's a link to all the evolgen content you should have already read. If you haven't, read it. It's good. We like it, that's why we link to it.

When some blogs go on vacation, they repost old content from the archives. At evolgen, there are not archives, only Zuul. Actually, there are archives, and you can find them here. But those are just archives of posts that have been posted since we moved to Los Bloggos de Ciencia . . . post. Here's a list of the content you should read that's sitting on the Blogger server waiting for the guvmint to classify as terrorist correspondence:

Are Deletions Deleterious?

Detecting Natural Selection

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Polymorphism and Divergence
Dr. Rob weighs in on the lack of a relationship between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) polymorphism and population size.
In one of the most important papers in population genetics, Begun and Aquadro showed that levels of DNA sequence polymorphism are positively correlated with recombination rate. There are three ways of interpreting this result:
Not all regions of the genome are equal in the eyes of evolution. For example, natural selection is more effective on genes in regions of higher recombination.