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Strong effects of heterosis on the evolution of dispersal rates.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jun 2009
Roze D, Rousset F
Abstract excerpt
When dispersal is limited, crosses between different regions may generate progeny of higher fitness than crosses within regions, due to the fact that individuals from the same region are more likely to share the same recessive deleterious alleles. This phenomenon (termed heterosis) generates a selective force favouring dispersal; however, the importance of heterosis on dispersal evolution has been a subject for...
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