• Premise of the study: Separating sexual function between different individuals carries risks,
especially for sedentary organisms. Nevertheless, many land plants have unisexual …

Baker's law refers to the tendency for species that establish on islands by long‐distance
dispersal to show an increased capacity for self‐fertilization because of the advantage of self …

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex
allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female …

Dioecy, the coexistence of separate male and female individuals in a population, is a rare
but phylogenetically widespread sexual system in flowering plants. While research has …

Colonization is likely to be more successful for species with an ability to self‐fertilize and
thus to establish new populations as single individuals. As a result, self‐compatibility should …

Mitochondrial (mt) function depends critically on optimal interactions between components
encoded by mt and nuclear DNAs. mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) inheritance (SMI) is thought …

Background The 'gynodioecy–dioecy pathway'is considered to be one of the most important
evolutionary routes from hermaphroditism to separate sexes (dioecy). Despite a large …

Sexual-system evolution has a long rich history of theoretical study, which has guided
empirical explorations and the recent expansion of ideas concerning the role of ecological …

Sex determination is as important for the fitness of plants as it is for animals, but its
mechanisms appear to vary much more among plants than among animals, and the …

Background The remarkable diversity of mating patterns and sexual systems in flowering
plants has fascinated evolutionary biologists for more than a century. Enduring questions …