The mechanisms by which flowering plants choose their mating partners have interested
researchers for a long time. Recent findings on the molecular mechanisms of non-self …

Balancing selection describes any form of natural selection, which results in the persistence
of multiple variants of a trait at intermediate frequencies within populations. By offering up a …

During evolution successful allopolyploids must overcome 'genome shock'between
hybridizing species but the underlying process remains elusive. Here, we report concerted …

Plants have evolved diverse self-incompatibility (SI) systems for outcrossing. Since Darwin's
time, considerable progress has been made toward elucidating this unrivaled reproductive …

Selfing has evolved in animals, fungi, and plants, and since Darwin's pioneering study, it is
considered one of the most frequent evolutionary trends in flowering plants. Generally, the …

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The self‐incompatible species Arabidopsis halleri is a close relative of the self‐compatible
model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The broad European and Asian distribution and heavy …

Self-incompatibility (SI) is a mechanism that many plant families employ to prevent self-
fertilization. In the Brassicaceae, the S-haplotype-specific interaction of the pollen-borne …

Dominance is a basic property of inheritance systems describing the link between a diploid
genotype at a single locus and the resulting phenotype. Models for the evolution of …

Supergenes are clusters of tightly linked genes that jointly produce complex phenotypes.
Although widespread in nature, how such genomic elements are formed and how they …