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SUBMITTER: Hanschen ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5796843 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hanschen Erik R ER Herron Matthew D MD Wiens John J JJ Nozaki Hisayoshi H Michod Richard E RE
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20171124 2
Outcrossing and self-fertilization are fundamental strategies of sexual reproduction, each with different evolutionary costs and benefits. Self-fertilization is thought to be an evolutionary "dead-end" strategy, beneficial in the short term but costly in the long term, resulting in self-fertilizing species that occupy only the tips of phylogenetic trees. Here, we use volvocine green algae to investigate the evolution of self-fertilization. We use ancestral-state reconstructions to show that self ...[more]