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Recent loss of self-incompatibility by degradation of the male component in allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2012
Tsuchimatsu Takashi, Kaiser Pascal, Yew Chow-Lih, Bachelier Julien B, Shimizu Kentaro K
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary transition from outcrossing to self-fertilization (selfing) through the loss of self-incompatibility (SI) is one of the most prevalent events in flowering plants, and its genetic basis has been a major focus in evolutionary biology. In the Brassicaceae, the SI system consists of male and female specificity genes at the S-locus and of genes involved in the female downstream signaling pathway....
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