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Science 17 August 1973:
Vol. 181. no. 4100, pp. 667 - 668
DOI: 10.1126/science.181.4100.667
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Viability versus Fecundity Selection in the Slender Wild Oat, Avena barbata L

M. T. Clegg 1 and R. W. Allard 1

1 Department of Genetics, University of California, Davis 95616

Estimates of relative selective values of different genotypes in natural populations of predominantly self-pollinated plants have consistently shown a net heterozygote advantage. Heterozygote advantage is further analyzed in the present study by estimating components of selective values corresponding approximately to viability and fecundity. The results show that a higher proportion of heterozygotes than of homozygotes survive from seeding to adult stages and that this viability selection accounts for the overall excess of heterozygotes.


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