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Directional Selection

Directional selection is a mode of natural selection in which an extreme phenotype is favoured over others, shifting the distribution of a trait in a population toward one direction over successive generations and driving adaptive evolutionary change. Genetic Engineering is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal publi…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 2 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 12× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2694-1198 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Directional selection is a mode of natural selection in which an extreme phenotype is favoured over others, shifting the distribution of a trait in a population toward one direction over successive generations and driving adaptive evolutionary change. Genetic Engineering is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal publishing research on genetics, molecular evolution, and the manipulation and analysis of genetic material. Its scope encompasses evolutionary mechanisms and the molecular changes that accompany them, including a critical examination of whether natural selection remains a foundation of the evolutionary process, and an investigation of molecular evolutionary mechanisms in a partially sequenced heat shock protein 70 homologue-coding gene from viral isolates. These contributions reflect the journal's coverage of selection, sequence variation, and adaptation at the genetic level. The journal welcomes original research and reviews on evolutionary genetics, gene structure, and molecular change. Readers interested in natural selection, molecular evolution, adaptation, and population genetics will find peer-reviewed, open-access studies relevant to directional selection.

Research published in this journal

2 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 2 articles above have been cited 12 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Directional Selection, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Genetic Engineering (ISSN 2694-1198).

Journal editorial board
Gabriela Roca · Germany Khalid Al-Nedawi · Canada Giuliana Giardino · Italy

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