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Plant-like mating in an animal: sexual compatibility and allocation trade-offs in a simultaneous hermaphrodite with remote transfer of sperm.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 May 2004
Pemberton A J, Sommerfeldt A D, Wood C A, Flint H C, Noble L R, Clarke K R, Bishop J D D
Abstract excerpt
The importance of sexual compatibility between mates has only recently been realized in zoological research into sexual selection, yet its study has been central to botanical research for many decades. The reproductive characteristics of remote mating, an absence of precopulatory mate screening, internal fertilization and embryonic brooding are shared between passively pollinated plants and a phylogenetically...
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