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Digest: Sexual conflict as a novel hypothesis for the evolution of gynodioecy *
Author(s) -
Tonnabel Jeanne
Publication year - 2021
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.14161
Subject(s) - biology , sexual conflict , evolutionary biology , zoology , sexual selection
Can sexual conflict over the length of male versus female maturity phases within hermaphroditic flowers promote the evolution of gynodioecy? Wang et al. found that hermaphroditic plants of Cyananthus delavayi exhibited a plastic response to a failure in pollen removal, which compromised seed production by reducing the duration of the female maturity phase to the benefit of the male phase. Sexual conflict over sex‐specific temporal maturity may bring about sufficient fertility differences between hermaphrodites and females to promote the evolution of gynodioecy.