The robustness of Hamilton's rule with inbreeding and dominance: kin selection and fixation probabilities under partial sib mating.

Abstract excerpt

Assessing the validity of Hamilton's rule when there is both inbreeding and dominance remains difficult. In this article, we provide a general method based on the direct fitness formalism to address this question. We then apply it to the question of the evolution of altruism among diploid full sibs and among haplodiploid sisters under inbreeding resulting from partial sib mating. In both cases, we find that the...

Topics

• Altruism
• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Diploidy
• Female
• Gene Frequency
• Genes, Dominant
• Haploidy
• Inbreeding
• Male
• Models, Biological
• Phenotype
• Population Dynamics
• Selection, Genetic