Inbreeding depression, the decline in fitness of inbred individuals, is a ubiquitous
phenomenon of great relevance in evolutionary biology and in the fields of animal and plant …

Epistasis may have important consequences for a number of issues in quantitative genetics
and evolutionary biology. In particular, synergistic epistasis for deleterious alleles is relevant …

Extra-pair paternity (EPP) has been suggested to improve the genetic quality of offspring, but
evidence has been equivocal. Benefits of EPP may be only available to specific individuals …

Inbreeding depression resulting from partially recessive deleterious alleles is thought to be
the main genetic factor preventing self-fertilizing mutants from spreading in outcrossing …

Cytological data from flowering plants suggest that the evolution of recombination rates is
affected by the mating system of organisms, as higher chiasma frequencies are often …

Understanding how mutations affect survivability is a key component to knowing how
organisms and complex traits evolve. However, most mutations have a minor effect on …

Genetic recombination is a building block of the sexual cycle of eukaryotes, and is often
considered as one of the main benefits of sexual reproduction. It is the consequence of …

The papers had to contain experimental manipulations of both inbreeding depression and
temperature to be included in the meta-analysis. A paper that manipulates inbreeding …

Plants are unable to move away from unwanted environments and therefore have to locally
adapt to changing conditions. Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), a model organism in plant …

Dispersal, defined as any movement of an individual over various spatial scales that may
contribute to gene flow, is an essential component of species ecology. It provides a …