Low S-allele numbers limit mate availability, reduce seed set and skew fitness in small populations of a self-incompatible plant - Young, Andrew G.; Pickup, Melinda (The Journal of applied ecology, 2010)
Keywords: Angiospermae; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Conservation biology; Depopulation; diallel analysis; diallel cross; Ecological genetics; Ecology; Extinction; Flowers & plants; forbs; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; genes; Genetic diversity; genetic erosion; Genetic factors; genetic variation; Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution; genotype; habitat destruction; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Habitats; inflorescences; loci; mate limitation; paternity; Plant populations; Plant species; Plants; Pollen; Pollinators; population dynamics; Population ecology; Population genetics; Population genetics, reproduction patterns; Population management; Population size; population viability; Reproduction; reproductive failure; reproductive performance; Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides; Seed set; Species extinction; sporophytic self‐incompatibility; S‐alleles; variance; Availability; Incompatibility; genetic erosion; mate limitation; Reproductive failure; diallel cross; Population genetics; Fragmentation; Allele; Seed set; S-alleles; Sex partner; Habitat; population viability; Viability; Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides; sporophytic self-incompatibility; Erosion; Fitness; habitat fragmentation