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Reproductive compensation in the evolution of plant mating systems.
The New phytologist - 1 May 2005
Porcher Emmanuelle, Lande Russell
Abstract excerpt
Reproductive compensation, the replacement of dead embryos by potentially viable ones, is known to play a major role in the maintenance of deleterious mutations in mammalian populations. However, it has received little attention in plant evolution. Here we model the joint evolution of mating system and inbreeding depression with reproductive compensation. We used a dynamic model of inbreeding depression, allowing...
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