preferential mating

Epinat G & Lenormand T 2009 The evolution of assortative mating and selfing with in- and outbreeding depression. Evolution, in press.
doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00700.x

• it would be worth considering the effect of finite population size, even if this is rarely taken into account in multilocus models of this type
• but see Billiard & Lenormand 2005; Roze & Rousset 2005
• the effect of finite population size on allele frequencies, load, inbreeding depression, and heterosis have indeed been studied (Glemin 2003; Glemin et al. 2003), but not its consequence on the evolution of a modifier of selfing or assortative mating