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Migrants between plant populations may represent a random sample of the donor population or may be related, being identical in the extreme. There is considerable potential for kin-structured migration in many plant species through the co-dispersal of seeds from single individuals. Through simulation experiments we have shown that the greater the level of relatedness of migrants, the less a given level of migration counterbalances the effect of genetic drift among populations.
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Levin, D.A., Fix, A.G. A model of kin-migration in plants. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 77, 332–336 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00305824
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