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Digest: Going solo: Self‐fertilization in haploid algae may not lead to evolutionary decline *
Author(s) -
Vincent Alan M.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.13420
Subject(s) - biology , human fertilization , ploidy , algae , evolutionary biology , lead (geology) , ecology , zoology , genetics , paleontology , gene
Does the evolution of self-fertilization elevate species extinction rates? Hanschen et al. (2017) found that volvocine algae do not fit the expected phylogenetic pattern that selfing species go extinct faster. They suggest that this outcome results from their primarily haploid life cycle, which reduces the usual cost of self-fertilization. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.