Widespread coexistence of self-compatible and self-incompatible phenotypes in a diallelic self-incompatibility system in Ligustrum vulgare (Oleaceae)
I. De Cauwer, P. Vernet, S. Billiard, C. Gode, A. Bourceaux, C. Ponitzki, P. Saumitou-Laprade
The paper investigates self-incompatibility in Ligustrum vulgare, finding self-compatible individuals and showing that low selfing rates are compatible with theory only if inbreeding depression is high.
bioRxiv · Mar 26, 2020Evolutionary Biology