Paternal effects on functional gender account for cryptic dioecy in a perennial plant.

Natural selection operates on the mating strategies of hermaphrodites through their functional gender, i.e. their relative success as male versus female parents. Because functional gender will tend to be strongly influenced by sex allocation, it is often estimated in plants by counting seeds and pol...

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Main Authors: Verdú, M, Montilla, A, Pannell, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004