Polyploidy and the sexual system: What can we learn from Mercurialis annua?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 547-560

  Pannell, John R ^a   Obbard, Darren J ^a   Buggs, Richard J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Androdioecy; Dioecy; Inbreeding depression; Monoecy; Reproductive assurance; Self incompatibility

Indexed keywords

ANDRODIOECY; DIOECY; EVOLUTION; POLYPLOIDY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

MERCURIALIS; MERCURIALIS ANNUA;

EID: 0347352306     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00340.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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