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The sheltered genetic load linked to the s locus in plants: new insights from theoretical and empirical approaches in sporophytic self-incompatibility.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2009
Llaurens Violaine, Gonthier Lucy, Billiard Sylvain
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Inbreeding depression and mating systems evolution are closely linked, because the purging of deleterious mutations and the fitness of individuals may depend on outcrossing vs. selfing rates. Further, the accumulation of deleterious mutations may vary among genomic regions, especially for genes closely linked to loci under balancing selection. Sporophytic self-incompatibility (SSI) is a common genetic mechanism...
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