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SUBMITTER: Szovenyi P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4041004 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Szövényi Péter P Devos Nicolas N Weston David J DJ Yang Xiaohan X Hock Zsófia Z Shaw Jonathan A JA Shimizu Kentaro K KK McDaniel Stuart F SF Wagner Andreas A
Genome biology and evolution 20140514 5
In diploid organisms, selfing reduces the efficiency of selection in removing deleterious mutations from a population. This need not be the case for all organisms. Some plants, for example, undergo an extreme form of selfing known as intragametophytic selfing, which immediately exposes all recessive deleterious mutations in a parental genome to selective purging. Here, we ask how effectively deleterious mutations are removed from such plants. Specifically, we study the extent to which deleteriou ...[more]