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Hybrid apomicts trapped in the ecological niches of their sexual ancestors.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 May 2015
Mau Martin, Lovell John T, Corral José M, Kiefer Christiane, Koch Marcus A, Aliyu Olawale M, Sharbel Timothy F
Abstract excerpt
Asexual reproduction is expected to reduce the adaptive potential to novel or changing environmental conditions, restricting or altering the ecological niche of asexual lineages. Asexual lineages of plants and animals are typically polyploid, an attribute that may influence their genetic variation, plasticity, adaptive potential, and niche breadth. The genus Boechera (Brassicaceae) represents an ideal model to...
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