The phrase "the effectiveness of selection" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the efficiency of a process of choosing (or selecting) from multiple choices. For example, "Our team is researching the effectiveness of selection methods used in college admissions processes".
The gene-length effects may result from background selection and/or Hill-Robertson effects, each of which interfere with the effectiveness of selection and has a greater effect for longer genes (Comeron et al. 1999; Comeron and Guthrie 2005; Loewe and Charlesworth 2007) that is such processes may interfere with the fixation of optimal codons in longer genes.
Small effective population sizes reduce the effectiveness of selection, allowing altered rates of fixation of deleterious TEs (Charlesworth B and Charlesworth D 1983; Lynch and Conery 2003).
This is because there is a sharp threshold for the effectiveness of selection s that depends on the effective population size N e ; when this threshold is exceeded (which is when s > 1/ N e ), selection works great, otherwise evolution is neutral.
The effective population size is a strong determinant of the effectiveness of selection and drift [ 25, 26].
It therefore seems that there is a correlation between the effectiveness of selection on non-synonymous mutations and effective population size, even if we control for phylogenetic non-independence.
Notably, differences in selective pressure include not only classical fitness variation but also in effective population size (Ne) that leads to differences in the effectiveness of selection versus drift.
This means that the presence of group selection or the effectiveness of group selection is to be measured by the existence of nonadaptive behavior on the part of individual organisms along with the presence of a corresponding group-level adaptation.
As the effectiveness of such selection on synonymous codon usage is also influenced by effective population size, translational selection is expected to be stronger in species with large populations.
To elucidate the purifying effect of recombination, we demonstrate that the effectiveness of purifying selection (1- K n /K s ) positively correlates with the density of mobile genes, i.e. with the frequency of recombination.
If the accuracies of DGV are more dependent on genetic relationships than on marker-QTL LD, then the effectiveness of genomic selection will be limited in practice for such distantly-related selection candidates.
More generally, in finite populations selection at multiple sites could in theory reduce the effectiveness of natural selection, both positive and negative, between alleles in linkage disequilibrium (Hill and Robertson 1966; Felsenstein 1974).
