0 present participle of hitchhike
1 to travel by getting free rides in someone else's vehicle:
I would never hitchhike on my own.
They hitchhiked to Paris.
It seems unlikely that hitchhiking influences the two adjacent regions differently.
A second reason is that indirect selection may be more efficient, whether it acts on favored alleles (genetic hitchhiking) or on deleterious mutations (background selection).
What is even less clear is how prevalent hitchhiking is in species that are not models for genetic analysis.
We consider several different evolutionary models including the neutral panmictic model, population subdivision, population size bottleneck, expansion and genetic hitchhiking.
There are two scenarios under which hitchhiking might have this effect.
Statistical tests of neutrality of mutations against population growth, hitchhiking and background selection.
The low rates of substitution may imply that plant organelles are unlikely to experience frequent hitchhiking, due to insufficient rates of deleterious and advantageous mutation.
Detecting a local signature of genetic hitchhiking along a recombining chromosome.
