Article
Correlated evolution of mating strategy and inbreeding depression within and among populations of the hermaphroditic snail Physa acuta.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2009
Escobar Juan S, Facon Benoît, Jarne Philippe, Goudet Jérôme, David Patrice
Abstract excerpt
Inbreeding depression is one of the main forces opposing the evolution of self-fertilization. Of central importance is the hypothesis that inbreeding depression and selfing coevolve antagonistically, generating either low selfing rate and high inbreeding depression or vice versa. However, there is limited evidence for this coevolution within species. We investigated this topic in the hermaphroditic snail Physa...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Disorders of Sex Development
- Genetic Variation
- Inbreeding
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Sexual Behavior, Animal
- Snails
