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. 2023 May 15;131(5):iii-v.
doi: 10.1093/aob/mcad026.

Did Late Quaternary climate change trigger shifts in mating system in temperate plant species of the Sino-Japanese Floristic Region? A commentary on 'Genetic and demographic signatures accompanying the evolution of the selfing syndrome in Daphne kiusiana, an evergreen shrub'

Xinyi Zhang  1   2 , Hans Peter Comes  3 , Yingxiong Qiu  1
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Did Late Quaternary climate change trigger shifts in mating system in temperate plant species of the Sino-Japanese Floristic Region? A commentary on 'Genetic and demographic signatures accompanying the evolution of the selfing syndrome in Daphne kiusiana, an evergreen shrub'

Xinyi Zhang et al. Ann Bot. .

Abstract

This article comments on:

Eun-Kyeong Han, Ichiro Tamaki, Sang-Hun Oh, Jong-Soo Park, Won-Bum Cho, Dong-Pil Jin, Bo-Yun Kim, Sungyu Yang, Dong Chan Son, Hyeok-Jae Choi, Amarsanaa Gantsetseg, Yuji Isagi, and Jung-Hyun Lee. Genetic and demographic signatures accompanying the evolution of the selfing syndrome in Daphne kiusiana, an evergreen shrub, Annals of Botany, Volume 131, Issue 5, 11 April 2023, Pages 751–767, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac142

Keywords: Daphne kiusiana; Climate change; self-fertilization.

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Fig. 1.
Floral phenotypic changes associated with the shift from outcrossing (left, the western lineage) to selfing (right, the eastern lineage) of Daphne kiusiana var. kiusiana.
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