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Kin-dependent dispersal influences relatedness and genetic structuring in a lek system

Cayuela, Hugo ; Boualit, Laurent ; Laporte, Martin ; Prunier, Jérôme G. ; Preiss, Françoise ; Laurent, Alain ; Foletti, Francesco ; Clobert, Jean ; Jacob, Gwenaël

In: Oecologia, 2019, vol. 191, no. 1, p. 97–112

Kin selection and dispersal play a critical role in the evolution of cooperative breeding systems. Limited dispersal increases relatedness in spatially structured populations (population viscosity), with the result that neighbours tend to be genealogical relatives. Yet the increase in neighbours’ fitness-related performance through altruistic interaction may also result in habitat...

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How clonal are clones? A quest for loss of heterozygosity during asexual reproduction in Daphnia magna

Dukić, Marinela ; Berner, Daniel ; Haag, Christoph R. ; Ebert, Dieter

In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2019, vol. 32, no. 6, p. 619–628

Due to the lack of recombination, asexual organisms are predicted to accumulate mutations and show high levels of within‐individual allelic divergence (heterozygosity); however, empirical evidence for this prediction is largely missing. Instead, evidence of genome homogenization during asexual reproduction is accumulating. Ameiotic crossover recombination is a mechanism that could lead to...