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Dioecy is associated with higher diversification rates in flowering plants.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Jul 2014
Käfer J, de Boer H J, Mousset S, Kool A, Dufay M, Marais G A B
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In angiosperms, dioecious clades tend to have fewer species than their nondioecious sister clades. This departure from the expected equal species richness in the standard sister clade test has been interpreted as implying that dioecious clades diversify less and has initiated a series of studies suggesting that dioecy might be an 'evolutionary dead end'. However, two of us recently showed that the 'equal species...
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