Inbreeding depression and purging in a haplodiploid: gender-related effects
Inbreeding depression and purging in a haplodiploid: gender-related effects
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Tien, N S H , Sabelis, M W and Egas, M
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England: Springer Nature B.V
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English
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England: Springer Nature B.V
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Compared with diploid species, haplodiploids suffer less inbreeding depression because male haploidy imposes purifying selection on recessive deleterious alleles. However, alleles of genes only expressed in the diploid females are protected in heterozygous individuals. This leads to the prediction that haplodiploids suffer more from inbreeding effe...
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Inbreeding depression and purging in a haplodiploid: gender-related effects
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4815584
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4815584
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0018-067X
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1365-2540
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10.1038/hdy.2014.106
