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Article: Research on heredity detailed by S.L. Krauss and co-authors.
- Article from:
- Genomics & Genetics Weekly
- Article date:
- March 27, 2009
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According to recent research published in the journal Heredity, "In plants, pollen-and seed-dispersal distributions are characteristically leptokurtic, with significant consequences for spatial genetic structure and nearest-neighbour mating. However, most studies to date have been on wind-or insect-pollinated species."
"Here, we assigned paternity to quantify effective pollen dispersal over 9 years of mating, contrasted this to seed dispersal and examined their effects on fine-scale spatial genetic structure, within the bird-pollinated shrub Banksia hookeriana (Proteaceae). We used 163 polymorphic amplified fragment length polymorphism markers to assess genetic ...