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Fitness consequences of occasional outcrossing in a functionally asexual plant (Oenothera biennis).
Ecology - 1 Feb 2018
Maron John L, Johnson Marc T J, Hastings Amy P, Agrawal Anurag A
Abstract excerpt
Many clonal organisms occasionally outcross, but the long-term consequences of such infrequent events are often unknown. During five years, representing three to five plant generations, we followed 16 experimental field populations of the forb, Oenothera biennis, originally planted with the same 18 original genotypes. Oenothera biennis usually self fertilizes, which, due to its genetic system (permanent...
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