Autopolyploidy exacerbates dominance masking under negative frequency-dependent selection: evidence from sporophytic self-incompatibility in Arabidopsis arenosa and A. lyrata
Xavier Vekemans, Uliana Kolesnikova, Jakub Vlček, Mathieu Genête, Adrien Dufour, Rowan Welti, Céline Poux, Vincent Castric, Filip Kolář, Polina Yu. Novikova
The paper shows autopolyploidy reduces heterozygosity at self-incompatibility loci under dominance masking, using Arabidopsis species data.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · Jun 11, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology