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Maintenance of mixed mating after the loss of self-incompatibility in a long-lived perennial herb.
Annals of botany - 1 Jan 2017
Voillemot Marie, Pannell John R
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Many hermaphroditic plants avoid self-fertilization by means of a molecular self-incompatibility (SI) system, a complex trait that is difficult to evolve but relatively easy to lose. Loss of SI is a prerequisite for an evolutionary transition from obligate outcrossing to self-fertilization, which may bring about rapid changes in the genetic diversity and structure of populations. Loss of SI...
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