Article
Adaptation and maladaptation in selfing and outcrossing species: new mutations versus standing variation.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jan 2013
Glémin Sylvain, Ronfort Joëlle
Abstract excerpt
Evolution of selfing from outcrossing recurrently occurred in many lineages, especially in flowering plants. Evolution of selfing induces dramatic changes in the population genetics functioning but its consequences on the dynamics of adaptation have been overlooked. We studied a simple one-locus model of adaptation where a population experiences an environmental change at a given time. We first determined the...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Computer Simulation
- Environment
- Evolution, Molecular
- Extinction, Biological
- Genes, Dominant
- Genetic Loci
- Genetic Variation
- Hybridization, Genetic
- Inbreeding
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
