Evolution: an exception that proves the rule |
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Authors: | Charlesworth D |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratory, King's Buildings, W. Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK. |
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Abstract: | A careful comparative analysis suggests a simple explanation for a category of exceptions to the general correlation between separate sexes in plants -- dioecy -- and self-incompatibility. In some genera, polyploidy causes failure of self-incompatibility, and dioecy may then evolve. |
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