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JOHNSON1 has suggested that the relationship observed between the actual and effective numbers of alleles in certain natural populations is not consistent with the selectively neutral allele model of Kimura and Crow2. We show here, however, that the data from a large number of natural populations are in fact compatible with this model.
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KIRBY, G., HALLIDAY, R. Another View of Neutral Alleles in Natural Populations. Nature 241, 463–464 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/241463b0
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