How can the low levels of DNA sequence variation in regions of the drosophila genome with low recombination rates be explained?

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on July 19, 1994

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R R Hudson1

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1: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine 92717.

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