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Allelic incompatibility can explain female biased sex ratios in dioecious plants.
BMC genomics - 23 Mar 2017
Pucholt Pascal, Hallingbäck Henrik R, Berlin Sofia
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Biased sex ratios are common among dioecious plant species despite the theoretical prediction of selective advantage of even sex ratios. Albeit the high prevalence of deviations from even sex ratios, the genetic causes to sex biases are rarely known outside of a few model species. Here we present a mechanism underlying the female biased sex ratio in the dioecious willow species Salix viminalis....
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