Charles Darwin recognized that flowering plants have an unrivalled diversity of sexual
systems. Determining the ecological and genetic factors that govern sexual diversification in …

Breeding systems are important, and often neglected, aspects of the natural biology of
organisms, affecting homozygosity and thus many aspects of their biology, including levels …

Baker's Law states that it is more likely for self‐compatible than for self‐incompatible
individuals to establish sexually reproducing colonies after long‐distance dispersal …

Mating strategies in flowering plants are governed by several classes of floral adaptations.
Floral design and display primarily influence the quantity and quality of pollen dispersed …

Baker's law refers to the tendency for species that establish on islands by long‐distance
dispersal to show an increased capacity for self‐fertilization because of the advantage of self …

Dioecy, the coexistence of separate male and female individuals in a population, is a rare
but phylogenetically widespread sexual system in flowering plants. While research has …

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in plants is a classical example of genomic conflict,
opposing maternally-inherited cytoplasmic genes (mitochondrial genes in most cases) …

▪ Abstract Examples of androdioecy, the coexistence of males and hermaphrodites, was
unknown when the subject was last reviewed about two decades ago. Since then, several …

Colonization is likely to be more successful for species with an ability to self‐fertilize and
thus to establish new populations as single individuals. As a result, self‐compatibility should …

Many species persist as a metapopulation under a balance between the local extinction of
subpopulations or demes and their recolonization through dispersal from occupied patches …