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The evolution of intratetrad mating rates.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2005
Johnson Louise J, Antonovics Janis, Hood Michael E
Abstract excerpt
Intratetrad mating, the fusion of gametes formed in a single meiosis, has unusual consequences for genetic diversity, especially in genome regions linked to mating type loci. Here we investigate the fate of modifier alleles that alter the rate of intratetrad mating, under models of heterozygote advantage and of genetic load resulting from recurrent mutation. In both cases, intratetrad mating is favored if the...
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