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On a practical level, using phylogeny to reconstruct viruses' mutational histories and then using intuited mutations leaves one with insufficient data to determine positively-selected codons [ 36] unless, as some have done, one assumes observed drift is neutral and then tests for codons where selection is more positive than average [ 23, 38].
The Christian right wants to dissolve the massive Washington bureaucracies, but conservatives such as Steve Forbes and George W. Bush favor a powerful federal government that will "use morality-driven, activist foreign policy and a series of grand domestic initiatives to halt the right's drift into localism and insularity."
This combination of factors results in relaxed selection at many loci and higher levels of genetic drift affecting the entire genome.
All samples from a given blood collection period were assayed the same day, and control tubes that were run every 25 tubes revealed no intra-assay drift.
Tourists can cross the lakes in hand-poled ferryboats or drift at their own pace in a rowing boat.