The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation.

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Macroevolutionary studies have estimated higher extinction rates of self-compatible lineages than self-incompatible ones. A leading explanation is that selfing may prevent adaptation, since models show that selfing can inhibit the fixation of adaptive alleles at a single locus (1-step adaptation). However, adaptation often involves changes at multiple loci (multi-step adaption), but the effects of selfing remain...

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