The interaction between selection, demography and selfing and how it affects population viability.

Population extinction due to the accumulation of deleterious mutations has only been considered to occur at small population sizes, large sexual populations being expected to efficiently purge these mutations. However, little is known about how the mutation load generated by segregating mutations af...

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Main Authors: Diala Abu Awad, Sophie Gallina, Cyrille Bonamy, Sylvain Billiard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3897648?pdf=render