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Coevolution of self-fertilization and inbreeding depression. III. Homozygous lethal mutations at multiple loci.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Oct 1991
Uyenoyama M K, Waller D M
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We study the evolution of the rate of self-fertilization in response to deleterious mutations at multiple loci. Although partial selfing induces associations among loci even in the absence of linkage, associations among mutations at different loci are of a smaller order of magnitude than the mutation rate. Genotypes that carry homozygous lethal mutations in heterozygous form at i loci occur in frequencies of the...
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