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New perspectives on the evolution of plant mating systems.
Annals of botany - 1 Feb 2012
Karron Jeffrey D, Ivey Christopher T, Mitchell Randall J, Whitehead Michael R, Peakall Rod, Case Andrea L
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BACKGROUND: The remarkable diversity of mating patterns and sexual systems in flowering plants has fascinated evolutionary biologists for more than a century. Enduring questions about this topic include why sexual polymorphisms have evolved independently in over 100 plant families, and why proportions of self- and cross-fertilization often vary dramatically within and among populations. Important new insights...
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