Mating-system evolution: genies from a bottleneck.
Evolutionary shifts from outcrossing to selfing have been frequent in plants, but little is known about how this occurs. Two new studies of the same species point to a recent bottleneck that coincided with one such shift.
Pannell
John R
JR
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK. john.pannell@plants.ox.ac.uk
D000220:Adaptation, Biological / Q000502:physiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D029687:Capsella / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D018703:Founder Effect; D014644:Genetic Variation; D007178:Inbreeding; D012098:Reproduction / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology