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Costs of selfing prevent the spread of a self-compatibility mutation that causes reproductive assurance.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2017
Layman Nathan C, Fernando M Thilina R, Herlihy Christopher R, Busch Jeremiah W
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In flowering plants, shifts from outcrossing to partial or complete self-fertilization have occurred independently thousands of times, yet the underlying adaptive processes are difficult to discern. Selfing's ability to provide reproductive assurance when pollination is uncertain is an oft-cited ecological explanation for its evolution, but this benefit may be outweighed by costs diminishing its selective...
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