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Evolutionary shifts to self-fertilisation restricted to geographic range margins in North American Arabidopsis lyrata.
Ecology letters - 1 Apr 2014
Griffin P C, Willi Y
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Cross-fertilisation predominates in eukaryotes, but shifts to self-fertilisation are common and ecologically and evolutionarily important. Reproductive assurance under outcross gamete limitation is one eco-evolutionary process held responsible for the shift to selfing. Although small effective population size is a situation where selfing plants could theoretically benefit from reproductive assurance, empirical...
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