For a microsatellite under selection, we previously showed that the duration and cost of selection (i.e., death due to selection against suboptimal genotypes) are positively correlated with the distance between the starting allele frequencies and those at mutation selection equilibrium (Haasl and Payseur 2013).
Plots between genetic differentiation and expected heterozygosity to detect candidate microsatellite loci under selection according to the method implemented in lositant (Antao et al. 2008 Figure S2.
However, several pseudogenes should be used to decrease locus specific effects and comparisons should be made to other nuclear loci that are unlikely to be under selection (such as microsatellites) so that the influences of selection on pseudogenes can be evaluated.
Phosphoglucomutase deviated from other enzymes and microsatellite markers, and hence may be under selection along the latitudinal gradient but not between landscape types.
However, we did not detect any locus under selection on BTA20 despite that the fact that several microsatellites including GHRJA surround the growth hormone receptor gene.
Using a molecular marker known to be under selection (Pan I) along with a suite of six neutral microsatellite loci, we analysed an archived data set and revealed evidence of distinct temporal changes in the frequencies of genotypes at the Pan I locus among spawning Icelandic cod, collected between 1948 and 2002, a period characterized by high fishing pressure.
One microsatellite locus exhibited atypically large FST values, suggesting it might be linked to a locus under selection.
Gene-associated microsatellites are physically linked to particular alleles of a gene, and may hitchhike if the gene is under selection.
Within North Fiji and Lau Basins, four of nine microsatellite markers (Ifr043, Ifr068, Ifr086, and Ifr103) failed to amplify, were out of equilibrium, or were under selection.
