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Camus, Carolina Solas, Maribel Martínez, Camila Vargas, Jaime Garcés, Cristóbal Gil-Kodaka, Patricia Ladah, Lydia Serrão, Ester Faugeron, Sylvain
Inbreeding, the mating between genetically related individuals, often results in reduced survival and fecundity of offspring, relative to outcrossing. Yet, high inbreeding rates are commonly observed in seaweeds, suggesting compensatory reproductive traits may affect the costs and benefits of the mating system. We experimentally manipulated inbreed...
Abdelaziz, Mohamed Bakkali, Mohammed Gómez, José M Olivieri, Enrica Perfectti, Francisco
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The American naturalist
Self-fertilization has recurrently evolved in plants, involving different strategies and traits and often loss of attractive functions, collectively known as the selfing syndrome. However, few traits that actively promote self-fertilization have been described. Here we describe a novel mechanism promoting self-fertilization in the Brassicaceae spec...