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Evolution of dioecy: can nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions select for maleness?
Heredity - 1 Oct 1994
Maurice S, Belhassen E, Couvet D, Gouyon P H
Abstract excerpt
A model of evolution of reproductive systems, when sex is determined by both nuclear and cytoplasmic genes, is presented. Such a control of sex is known to facilitate the occurrence of female individuals in hermaphroditic populations, thus leading to gynodioecy. A two-cytotypes two-nuclear loci (two alleles at each nuclear locus) model for gynodioecy has been developed previously. Such gynodioecious systems are...
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