Yaniv Brandvain

Feb 16, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Lia Thomson |Daniel Espinosa |Yaniv Brandvain |Jeremy Van Cleve

1 INTRODUCTION Altruism is the phenomenon where an organism improves another's fitness at the expense of its own fitness (Hamilton, 1964; Lehmann & Keller, 2006; Rousset, 2004; Taylor, 1992).

Jan 25, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Yaniv Brandvain |Lia Thomson |Tanja Pyhäjärvi

AbstractDespite the potential for mechanical, developmental and/or chemical mechanisms to prevent self-fertilization, incidental self-fertilization is inevitable in many predominantly outcrossing species. In such cases, inbreeding can compromise individual fitness. Unquestionably, much of this inbreeding depression is maladaptive.