Article
The cost of fluctuating inbreeding depression.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2002
Cheptou Pierre-Olivier, Schoen Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
We present a phenotypic model for the evolution of self-fertilization in an infinite population of annual hermaphrodites for the case in which fitness and inbreeding depression vary among generations (e.g., due to fluctuations in the environment from year to year). Conditions for the evolution of selfing, mixed mating, and outcrossing are derived and are compared with results from numerical calculations that...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
