Establishment of local adaptation in partly self-fertilizing populations.

Abstract excerpt

Populations often inhabit multiple ecological patches and thus experience divergent selection, which can lead to local adaptation if migration is not strong enough to swamp locally adapted alleles. Conditions for the establishment of a locally advantageous allele have been studied in randomly mating populations. However, many species reproduce, at least partially, through self-fertilization, and how selfing...

Topics

• Adaptation, Physiological
• Alleles
• Fertilization
• Models, Genetic
• Self-Fertilization