Excluding insects, hermaphroditism occurs in about one‐third of animal species, providing
numerous opportunities for the evolution of selfing. Here we provide an overview of …

Selfing has evolved in animals, fungi, and plants, and since Darwin's pioneering study, it is
considered one of the most frequent evolutionary trends in flowering plants. Generally, the …

Genotypic frequencies at codominant marker loci in population samples convey information
on mating systems. A classical way to extract this information is to measure heterozygote …

The current study tests the hypothesis that life‐history traits (closely related to fitness) show
greater inbreeding depression than morphological traits (less closely related to fitness). The …

In sexual reproduction the genetic similarity or dissimilarity between mates strongly affects
offspring fitness. When mating partners are too closely related, increased homozygosity …

In hermaphrodites, traits that influence the selfing rate can coevolve with inbreeding
depression, leading to the emergence of evolutionary syndromes. Theory predicts a …

Over the last 130 years, research has established that (a) sexual selection exists and is
widespread in the plant and animal kingdoms;(b) it does not necessarily entail sexual …

It has been hypothesized that natural selection reduces the “genetic load” of deleterious
alleles from populations that inbreed during bottlenecks, thereby ameliorating impacts of …

Inbreeding is typically detrimental to fitness. However, some animal populations are
reported to inbreed without incurring inbreeding depression, ostensibly due to past “purging” …

Inbreeding depression was studied in two populations of a Mediterranean allogamous
colonizing species Crepis sancta. In order to test the hypothesis that the magnitude of …