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The effect of breeding system on polymorphism in mitochondrial genes of Silene.
Genetics - 1 Feb 2009
Touzet Pascal, Delph Lynda F
Abstract excerpt
Gynodioecy is a breeding system characterized by the co-occurrence of hermaphrodite and female individuals, generally as the result of nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions. The question remains whether the genetic factors controlling gynodioecy are maintained in species over long evolutionary timescales by balancing selection or are continually arising and being replaced in epidemic sweeps. If balancing selection...
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