The evolution of plant sexual diversity
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- 1 April 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Genetics
- Vol. 3 (4) , 274-284
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg776
Abstract
Charles Darwin recognized that flowering plants have an unrivalled diversity of sexual systems. Determining the ecological and genetic factors that govern sexual diversification in plants is today a central problem in evolutionary biology. The integration of phylogenetic, ecological and population-genetic studies have provided new insights into the selective mechanisms that are responsible for major evolutionary transitions between reproductive modes.Keywords
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