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High lifetime inbreeding depression counteracts the reproductive assurance benefit of selfing in a mass-flowering shrub

BACKGROUND: Decreases in mate and/or pollinator availability would be expected to affect the selective pressure on plant mating systems. An increase in self-fertilization may evolve to compensate for the negative effects of pollination failure. However, the benefit of selfing in variable pollination...

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Autores principales: Delmas, Chloé EL, Cheptou, Pierre-Olivier, Escaravage, Nathalie, Pornon, André
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25433917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0243-7