Soil moisture and sex ratio in a plant with nuclear-cytoplasmic sex inheritance

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1551, 2004, Pages 1935-1939

  Barr, Camille M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic male sterility; Sex allocation; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HERMAPHRODITE; SEED PRODUCTION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SOIL MOISTURE;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASMIC MALE STERILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HERMAPHRODITISM; NEMOPHILA MENZIESII; PLANT; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED PRODUCTION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; HYDROPHYLLACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

WATER;

CALIFORNIA; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; HYDROPHYLLACEAE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; SEX RATIO; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 6944230730     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2820     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Alonso, C. & Herrera, C. M. 2001 Neither vegetative nor reproductive advantages account for high frequency of male-steriles in southern Spanish gynodioecious Daphne laureola (Thymeleaceae). Am. J. Bot. 88, 1016-1024.
2. Ashman, T.-L. 1999 Determinants of sex allocation in a gynodioecious wild strawberry: implications for the evolution of dioecy and sexual dimorphism. J. Evol. Biol. 12, 648-661.
3. Asikainen, E. & Mutikainen, P. 2003 Female frequency and relative fitness of females and hermaphrodites in gynodioecious Geranium sylvaticum (Geraniaceae). Am. J. Bot. 90, 226-234.
4. Barrett, S. C. H. 1992 Gender variation and the evolution of dioecy in Wurmbea dioica (Liliaceae). J. Evol. Biol. 5, 423-444.
5. Charlesworth, B. & Charlesworth, D. 1978 A model for the evolution of dioecy and gynodioecy. Am. Nat. 112, 975-997.
6. Costich, D. E. 1995 Gender specialization across a climactic gradient: experimental comparisons of monoecious and dioecious Ecballium. Ecology 76, 1036-1050.
7. Cruden, R. W. 1972 Pollination biology of Nemophila menziesii (Hydrophyllaceae) with comments on the evolution of oligolectic bees. Evolution 26, 373-389.
8. de Jong, T. J., Klinkhamer, P. G. L. & Rademaker, M. C. J. 1999 How geitonogamous selfing affects sex allocation in hermaphrodite plants. J. Evol. Biol. 12, 166-176.
9. Delph, L. F. 1990 Sex-ratio variation in the gynodioecious shrub Hebe strictissima (Scrophulariaceae). Evolution 44, 134-142.
10. Delph, L. F. 2003 Sexual dimorphism in gender plasticity and its consequences for breeding system evolution. Evol. Dev. 5, 34-39.
11. Delph, L. F. & Carroll, S. B. 2001 Factors affecting relative seed fitness and female frequency in a gynodioecious species, Silene acaulis. Evol. Ecol. Res. 3, 487-505.
12. Delph, L. F. & Lloyd, D. G. 1991 Environmental and genetic control of gender in the dimorphic shrub Hebe subalpina. Evolution 45, 1957-1964.
13. Frank, S. A. 1989 The evolutionary dynamics of cytoplasmic male sterility. Am. Nat. 133, 345-376.
14. Ganders, F. R. 1978 The genetics and evolution of gynodioecy in Nemophila menziesii (Hydrophyllaceae). Can. J. Bot. 56, 1400-1408.
15. Gouyon, P.-H., Vichot, F. & Van Damme, J. M. M. 1991 Nuclear-cytoplasmic male sterility: single-point equilibria versus limit cycles. Am. Nat. 137, 498-514.
16. Kaul, M. L. H. 1988 Male sterility in higher plants. Berlin: Springer.
17. Klinkhamer, P. G. L. & de Jong, T. J. 1993 Phenotypic gender in plants: effects of plant size and environment on allocation to seeds and flowers in Cynoglossum officinale. Oikos 67, 81-86.
18. Klinkhamer, P. G. L. & de Jong, T. J. 1997 Size-dependent sex allocation to male and female reproduction. In Plant resource allocation (ed. F. A. Bazzaz & J. Grace), pp. 211-229. London: Academic.
19. Klinkhamer, P. G. L., de Jong, T. J. & Metz, H. 1997 Sex and size in cosexual plants. Trends Ecol. Evol. 12, 260-265.
20. Krohne, D. T., Baker, I. & Baker, H. G. 1979 The maintenance of the gynodioecious breeding system in Plantago lanceolata L. Am. Mid. Nat. 103, 269-279.
21. Lewis, D. 1941 Male sterility in natural populations of hermaphrodite plants. New Phytol. 40, 56-63.
22. Lloyd, D. G. 1987 Allocations to pollen, seeds and pollination mechanisms in self-fertilizing plants. Funct. Ecol. 1, 83-89.
23. Maletskii, S. I., Sukhareva, N. B. & Baturin, S. O. 1994 Sex inheritance in apomictic seedlings of garden strawberry (Fragaria ananassa Duch.). Genetika 30, 237-243.
24. Mathsoft Inc. 1999 S-PLUS guide to statistics, vol. 1. Seattle, WA: Mathsoft Inc.
25. Ramsey, M. & Vaughton, G. 2002 Maintenance of gynodioecy in Wurmbea biglandulosa (Colchicaceae): gender differences in seed production and progeny success. Pl. Syst. Evol. 232, 189-200.
26. Ramula, S. & Mutikainen, P. 2003 Sex allocation of females and hermaphrodites in the gynodioecious Geranium sylvaticum. Ann. Bot. 92, 207-213.
27. Sakai, A. K. & Weller, S. G. 1991 Ecological aspects of sex expression in subdioecious Schiedea globosa (Caryophyllaceae). Am. J. Bot. 78, 1280-1288.
28. Schick, C. T. 1999 The evolution of geographic variation in flower size in Nemophila menziesii (Hydrophyllaceae): tests of random and deterministic causes. PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.
29. Sokal, R. R. & Rohlf, F. J. 1995 Biometry: the principles and practice of statistics in biological research, 2nd edn. New York: Freeman.
30. Wilson, K. & Hardy, I. C. 2002 Statistical analysis of sex ratios: an introduction. In Sex ratios, concepts and research methods (ed. I. C. W. Hardy), pp. 48-92. Cambridge University Press.
31. Wolfe, L. M. & Shmida, A. 1997 The ecology of sex expression in a gynodioecious Israeli desert shrub (Ochradenus baccatus). Ecology 78, 101-110.