Purifying selection (Also known as negative or stabilizing selection)
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- Purifying selection (Also known as negative or stabilizing selection) search for term
Mode of natural selection that eliminates deleterious mutations and preserves the status quo; in protein-coding genes, it is manifested as Ka/Ks << 1 (Koonin 2005)