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Experimental Evidence for the Negative Effects of Self-Fertilization on the Adaptive Potential of Populations.
Current biology : CB - 23 Jan 2017
Noël Elsa, Jarne Philippe, Glémin Sylvain, MacKenzie Alicia, Segard Adeline, Sarda Violette, David Patrice
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Self-fertilization is widely believed to be an "evolutionary dead end" [1, 2], increasing the risk of extinction [3] and the accumulation of deleterious mutations in genomes [4]. Strikingly, while the failure to adapt has always been central to the dead-end hypothesis [1, 2], there are no quantitative genetic selection experiments comparing the response to positive selection in selfing versus outcrossing...
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