Local drift load and the heterosis of interconnected populations.

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We use Wright's distribution of equilibrium allele frequency to demonstrate that hybrids between populations interconnected by low to moderate levels of migration can have large positive heterosis, especially if the populations are small in size. Beneficial alleles neither fix in all populations nor equilibrate at the same frequency. Instead, populations reach a mutation-selection-drift-migration balance with...

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