Purging due to self-fertilization does not prevent accumulation of expansion load.

As species expand their geographic ranges, colonizing populations face novel ecological conditions, such as new environments and limited mates, and suffer from evolutionary consequences of demographic change through bottlenecks and mutation load accumulation. Self-fertilization is often observed at...

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Main Authors: Leo Zeitler, Christian Parisod, Kimberly J Gilbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-09-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010883&type=printable