The relative importance of reproductive assurance and automatic selection as hypotheses for the evolution of self-fertilization

Annals of Botany

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 553-562

  Busch, Jeremiah W ^a   Delph, Lynda F ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; inbreeding depression; mating systems; outcrossing; pollen discounting; pollination; seed discounting

Indexed keywords

AUTOGAMY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEED PRODUCTION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT GENE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SELF FERTILIZATION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; FERTILITY; GENES, PLANT; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SELF-FERTILIZATION;

EID: 84857480448     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr219     Document Type: Review

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