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Species selection maintains self-incompatibility.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 22 Oct 2010
Goldberg Emma E, Kohn Joshua R, Lande Russell, Robertson Kelly A, Smith Stephen A, Igić Boris
Abstract excerpt
Identifying traits that affect rates of speciation and extinction and, hence, explain differences in species diversity among clades is a major goal of evolutionary biology. Detecting such traits is especially difficult when they undergo frequent transitions between states. Self-incompatibility, the ability of hermaphrodites to enforce outcrossing, is frequently lost in flowering plants, enabling...
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