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Hulke & Criscione find that high selfing rates for a trematode can be explained solely by demography. Using demographic estimates of selfing showed no evidence for inbreeding depression. They test a theory for why parasites maintain complex life cycles. Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/732807
#trematode #selfing #demography #inbreeding #parasite #lifeCycles