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Title: Correlations among Fertility Components Can Maintain Mixed Mating in Plants
Author(s): Johnston, Mark O
Porcher, Emmanuelle
Cheptou, Pierre-Olivier
Eckert, Christopher G
Elle, Elizabeth
Geber, Monica A
Kalisz, Susan
Kelly, John K
Moeller, David A
Vallejo-Marín, Mario
Winn, Alice A
Contact Email: mario.vallejo@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: functional relation
inbreeding depression
pollen discounting
self-fertilization
selective constraint
trade-off
Issue Date: Jan-2009
Date Deposited: 31-Aug-2012
Citation: Johnston MO, Porcher E, Cheptou P, Eckert CG, Elle E, Geber MA, Kalisz S, Kelly JK, Moeller DA, Vallejo-Marín M & Winn AA (2009) Correlations among Fertility Components Can Maintain Mixed Mating in Plants. American Naturalist, 173 (1), pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1086/593705
Abstract: Classical models studying the evolution of self-fertilization in plants conclude that only complete selfing and complete outcrossing are evolutionarily stable. In contrast with this prediction, 42% of seed-plant species are reported to have rates of self-fertilization between 0.2 and 0.8. We propose that many previous models fail to predict intermediate selfing rates because they do not allow for functional relationships among three components of reproductive fitness: self-fertilized ovules, outcrossed ovules, and ovules sired by successful pollen export. Because the optimal design for fertility components may differ, conflicts among the alternative pathways to fitness are possible, and the greatest fertility may be achieved with some self-fertilization. Here we develop and analyze a model to predict optimal selfing rates that includes a range of possible relationships among the three components of reproductive fitness, as well as the effects of evolving inbreeding depression caused by deleterious mutations and of selection on total seed number. We demonstrate that intermediate selfing is optimal for a wide variety of relationships among fitness components and that inbreeding depression is not a good predictor of selfing-rate evolution. Functional relationships subsume the myriad effects of individual plant traits and thus offer a more general and simpler perspective on mating system evolution.
DOI Link: 10.1086/593705
Rights: Publisher policy allows this work to be made available in this repository. Published in The American Naturalist by The University of Chicago Press for The American Society of Naturalists. The original publication is available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/593705

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