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The number, age, sharing and relatedness of S-locus specificities in Prunus.
Genetics research - 1 Feb 2008
Vieira Jorge, Fonseca Nuno A, Santos Raquel A M, Habu Tsuyoshi, Tao Ryutaro, Vieira Cristina P
Abstract excerpt
In gametophytic self-incompatibility systems, many specificities (different 'lock-and-key' combinations) are maintained by frequency-dependent selection for very long evolutionary times. In Solanaceae, trans-specific evolution (the observation that an allele from one species may be more closely related to an allele from another species than to others from the same species) has been taken as an argument for the...
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