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Low levels of linkage disequilibrium in wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum) despite high rates of self-fertilization.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Feb 2005
Morrell Peter L, Toleno Donna M, Lundy Karen E, Clegg Michael T
Abstract excerpt
High levels of inbreeding cause populations to become composed of homozygous, inbred lines. High levels of homozygosity limit the effectiveness of recombination, and therefore, retard the rate of decay of linkage (gametic phase) disequilibrium (LD) among mutations. Inbreeding and recombination interact to shape the expected pattern of LD. The actual extent of nucleotide sequence level LD within inbreeding species...
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