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Costs of reproduction in a gynodioecious species

Posted on August 10th, 2012 by Alex

In gynodioecious species hermaphroditic plants coexist with female plants. Toivonen and Mutikainen  find that experimentally increased reproductive output leads to differential costs of reproduction in the gynodioecious Geranium sylvaticum (Geraniaceae). In hermaphrodites the costs are expressed as decreased flowering, and in females as decreased seed production; overall, female plants seem to be more sensitive to [...]