Hitchhiking of deleterious alleles and the cost of adaptation in partially selfing species.

Abstract excerpt

Self-fertilization is generally seen to be disadvantageous in the long term. It increases genetic drift, which subsequently reduces polymorphism and the efficiency of selection, which also challenges adaptation. However, high selfing rates can increase the fixation probability of recessive beneficial mutations, but existing theory has generally not accounted for the effect of linked sites. Here, we analyze a...

Topics

• Alleles
• Genetic Drift
• Genetic Fitness
• Genetics, Population
• Inbreeding
• Models, Genetic
• Plant Development
• Plants
• Polymorphism, Genetic
• Recombination, Genetic
• Selection, Genetic
• Self-Fertilization