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Female and male fitness consequences of clonal growth in a dwarf bamboo population with a high degree of clonal intermingling.
Annals of botany - 1 Oct 2014
Matsuo Ayumi, Tomimatsu Hiroshi, Suzuki Jun-Ichirou, Saitoh Tomoyuki, Shibata Shozo, Makita Akifumi, Suyama Yoshihisa
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Although many studies have reported that clonal growth interferes with sexual reproduction as a result of geitonogamous self-pollination and inbreeding depression, the mating costs of clonal growth are expected to be reduced when genets are spatially intermingled with others. This study examined how clonal growth affects both female and male reproductive success by studying a population of a...
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