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Dynamics of apomictic and sexual reproduction during primary succession on a glacier forefield in the Swiss Alps.
Scientific reports - 19 May 2020
Sailer Christian, Stöcklin Jürg, Grossniklaus Ueli
Abstract excerpt
Apomixis, the asexual reproduction through seeds, is thought to provide reproductive assurance when ploidy is not even and/or when population density is low. Therefore, apomicts are expected to be more abundant, and the frequency of apomictic offspring higher, at early stages of primary succession when mates are rare. To test this hypothesis, we sampled facultative apomictic Hieracium pilosella L. along the...
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