Recurrent self-fertilization is thought to lead to reduced adaptive potential by decreasing the
genetic diversity of populations, thus leading selfing lineages down an evolutionary “blind …

Studying the consequences of hybridization on plant performance is insightful to understand
the adaptive potential of populations, notably at local scales. Due to reduced effective …

Balancing selection is a form of natural selection maintaining diversity at the sites it targets
and at linked nucleotide sites. Due to selection favoring heterozygosity, it has the potential to …

This chapter considers how variation in mating systems affects evolvability in populations
and how we should estimate it. Most models considered in evolutionary quantitative ge ne …

Background The influence of linkage disequilibrium (LD), epistasis, and inbreeding on
genotypic variance continues to be an important area of investigation in genetics and …

The pollination characteristics and flowering phenology of Calanthe sieboldii were
evaluated to elucidate its reproductive characteristics and breeding systems. Field …

Empirical studies on natural populations of Medicago truncatula revealed selfing rates
higher than 80%, but never up to 100%. Similarly, several studies of predominantly selfing …

The contribution of non-additive genetic effects to the genetic architecture of fitness and to
the evolutionary potential of populations has been a topic of theoretical and empirical …

Macroevolutionary studies have estimated higher extinction rates of self-compatible
lineages than self-incompatible ones. A leading explanation is that selfing may prevent …

Hybridization is a natural process whereby two diverging evolutionary lineages reproduce
and create offspring of mixed ancestry. Differences in mating systems (eg, self‐fertilization …