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Sex inheritance in gynodioecious species: a polygenic view.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Sept 2005
Ehlers Bodil K, Maurice Sandrine, Bataillon Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Gynodioecy is defined as the coexistence of two different sexual morphs in a population: females and hermaphrodites. This breeding system is found among many different families of angiosperms and is usually under nucleo-cytoplasmic inheritance, with maternally inherited genes causing male sterility and nuclear factors restoring male fertility. Numerous theoretical models have investigated the conditions for the...
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