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Self-fertilization and the evolution of recombination

Denis Roze1, Thomas Lenormand

  • 1Génétique et Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses, Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement, Montpellier, France. denis.roze@ed.ac.uk

Genetics
|March 23, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Self-fertilization impacts the evolution of recombination rates. Sporophytic selfing, even at low rates, strongly favors increased recombination under specific epistasis, unlike gametophytic selfing which requires high rates.

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