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Consequences of prairie fragmentation on the progeny sex ratio of a gynodioecious species, Lobelia spicata (Campanulaceae).
Heredity - 1 Jul 2005
Byers D L, Warsaw A, Meagher T R
Abstract excerpt
Habitat fragmentation of prairie ecosystems has resulted in increased isolation and decreased size of plant populations. In large populations, frequency-dependent selection is expected to maintain genetic diversity of sex determining factors associated with gynodioecy, that is, nuclear restorer genes that reverse cytoplasmic male sterility (nucleocytoplasmic gynodioecy). However, genetic drift will have a greater...
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