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But not all variation in nature arises from balancing selection.
Charlesworth, D. Balancing selection and its effects on sequences in nearby genome regions.
Leffler, E.M. et al. Multiple instances of ancient balancing selection shared between humans and chimpanzees.
This pattern is likely attributable to both homoplasy and balancing selection on ancestral polymorphism.
These data are suggestive of the direction of balancing selection.
Although we showed the evidence of balancing selection in this region, the mechanism under which balancing selection occurred at the intron 5 of LMBR1 gene is unclear.
However, weak balancing selection may generate signals very similar to diversifying selection while shared polymorphisms with outgroup species are expected only under very strong balancing selection.
Furthermore, ABC can act alongside balancing selection, as both evolutionary forces are not mutually exclusive.
Actually, small values correspond to positive selection and large values to balancing selection.
Sequence polymorphisms at these sites are believed to result from positive and balancing selection [67], [68].
Thus, balancing selection acting on this locus seems a more plausible hypothesis.
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