Article
Evolutionary rescue in randomly mating, selfing, and clonal populations.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2017
Uecker Hildegard
Abstract excerpt
Severe environmental change can drive a population extinct unless the population adapts in time to the new conditions ("evolutionary rescue"). How does biparental sexual reproduction influence the chances of population persistence compared to clonal reproduction or selfing? In this article, we set up a one-locus two-allele model for adaptation in diploid species, where rescue is contingent on the establishment of...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Biological Evolution
- Genetic Variation
- Homozygote
- Models, Genetic
- Reproduction
- Self-Fertilization