The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment.

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Much theory has focused on how a population's selfing rate affects the ability of natural selection to remove deleterious mutations from a population. However, most such theory has focused on mutations of a given dominance and fitness effect in isolation. It remains unclear how selfing affects the purging of deleterious mutations in a genome-wide context where mutations with different selection and dominance...

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