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Polyploidy influences sexual system and mating patterns in the moss Atrichum undulatum sensu lato.
Annals of botany - 1 Jan 2011
Jesson Linley K, Cavanagh Amanda P, Perley Danielle S
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Evolutionary transitions between separate and combined sexes have frequently occurred across various plant lineages. In mosses, which are haploid-dominant, evolutionary transitions from separate to combined sexes are often associated with genome doubling. Polyploidy and hermaphroditism have strong effects on the inbreeding depression of a population, and are subsequently predicted to affect...
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