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Selfish male-determining element favors the transition from hermaphroditism to androdioecy.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Mar 2015
Billiard Sylvain, Husse Laetitia, Lepercq Pierre, Godé Cécile, Bourceaux Angélique, Lepart Jacques, Vernet Philippe, Saumitou-Laprade Pierre
Abstract excerpt
According to the current, widely accepted paradigm, the evolutionary transition from hermaphroditism toward separate sexes occurs in two successive steps: an initial, intermediate step in which unisexual individuals, male or female, sterility mutants coexist with hermaphrodites and a final step that definitively establishes dioecy. Two nonexclusive processes can drive this transition: inbreeding avoidance and...
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