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The impact of extensive clonal growth on fine-scale mating patterns: a full paternity analysis of a lily-of-the-valley population (Convallaria majalis).
Annals of botany - 1 Apr 2013
Vandepitte Katrien, De Meyer Tim, Jacquemyn Hans, Roldán-Ruiz Isabel, Honnay Olivier
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The combination of clonality and a mating system promoting outcrossing is considered advantageous because outcrossing avoids the fitness costs of selfing within clones (geitonogamy) while clonality assures local persistence and increases floral display. The spatial spread of genetically identical plants (ramets) may, however, also decrease paternal diversity (the number of sires fertilizing a...
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