The Evolutionary Maintenance of Sexual Reproduction: Evidence from the Ecological Distribution of Asexual Reproduction in Clonal Plants

By J. Silvertown. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PLANT SCIENCES, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. M. Dorken
2. M. Vallejo‐Marín
3. S. Barrett
4. R. Dodd
5. Yun Yang
6. L. Meyerson
7. I. Baums
8. V. Douhovnikoff

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. M. Dorken
2. L. Meyerson
3. A. Lambert
4. M. Vallejo‐Marín
5. S. Barrett
6. R. Dodd
7. Yun Yang
8. I. Baums

Citations in the corpus

• The Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Clonality for Plant Mating (2010, methodology): “Using data from studies by ArnaudHaond et al. (2007) and Silvertown (2008), and excluding populations of species that are apomictic or exclusively asexual, we obtained an average value of genotypic diversity for clonal plants of G/N = 0.42 ± 0.02 (mean ± SE, n = 195 taxa).”
• Epigenetics: a potential mechanism for clonal plant success (2015, background): “This suggests they are successful for evolutionarily short periods of time and under stable environments (Silvertown 2008).”
• Genetics and Reproduction of Common (Phragmites australis) and Giant Reed (Arundo donax) (2010, background): “It is possible that this lack of sex may be a response to ecological conditions, such as climate, that prevent it from occurring (Silvertown 2008).”
• Why Reproductive Systems Matter for the Invasion Biology of Plants (2010, background): “On the contrary, surveys using genetic markers have demonstrated that populations can maintain considerable amounts of genetic diversity (reviewed in Silvertown 2008 ).”
• Marginal coral populations: the densest known aggregation of Pocillopora in the Galápagos Archipelago is of asexual origin (2014, background): “Both brooding and broadcasting types are hermaphroditic (Sier and Olive, 1994; Kruger and Schleyer, 1998).”
• The optimal balance between sexual and asexual reproduction in variable environments: a systematic review (2016, background): “In clonal plants, vegetative reproduction produces new ramets by budding from roots, rhizomes, stems, storage organs such as tubers or (more rarely) leaves, or inflorescences (Silvertown 2008).”