Publication Date:
2010-10-23
Description:
Identifying traits that affect rates of speciation and extinction and, hence, explain differences in species diversity among clades is a major goal of evolutionary biology. Detecting such traits is especially difficult when they undergo frequent transitions between states. Self-incompatibility, the ability of hermaphrodites to enforce outcrossing, is frequently lost in flowering plants, enabling self-fertilization. We show, however, that in the nightshade plant family (Solanaceae), species with functional self-incompatibility diversify at a significantly higher rate than those without it. The apparent short-term advantages of potentially self-fertilizing individuals are therefore offset by strong species selection, which favors obligate outcrossing.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Goldberg, Emma E -- Kohn, Joshua R -- Lande, Russell -- Robertson, Kelly A -- Smith, Stephen A -- Igic, Boris -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Oct 22;330(6003):493-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1194513.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 West Taylor Street, M/C 067, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20966249" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Biological Evolution
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Fertilization/*physiology
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*Genetic Speciation
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Genetic Variation
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Inbreeding
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Phylogeny
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*Selection, Genetic
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Solanaceae/classification/genetics/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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