The loss of sex in clonal plants

By C. Eckert. Evolutionary Ecology, 2001

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

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Bud banks and their role in vegetative regeneration – A literature review and proposal for simple classification and assessment (2007, background): “Vegetative regeneration and clonal growth strongly prevail in some plant species so that reproduction from seeds contri- butes negligibly to the number of their offspring (Grace, 1993; Eckert, 2002).”
Pollen limitation of plant reproduction: Ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences (2004, background): “For instance, it has been argued that traits that enhance pollinator attraction (Haig and Westoby 1988), or lessen reliance on pollinators (i.e., obligate or delayed selfpollination ; Lloyd 1974, 1992), or on sexual reproduction (i.e., increased clonal growth; Eckert 2001) may evolve.”
Soil seed banks in plant invasions: promoting species invasiveness and long-term impact on plant community dynamics. (2012, background): “…species that reproduce both sexually and asexually exhibit adaptive responses to stressful conditions, resulting in increased vegetative propagation at the expense of sexual reproduction (Salisbury 1942, Harper & Ogden 1970, D’Antonio 1993, Watkinson & Powell 1993, Grime 2001, Eckert 2002).”
The Legacy of Plant Invasions: Changes in the Soil Seed Bank of Invaded Plant Communities (2016, background): “Because the environmental conditions may affect the balance between sexual and clonal reproduction for many species (Eckert 2002), it is possible that in an adaptive response to the new disturbance regime introduced by an invasion process, resident species rely more on vegetative propagation and…”
“Pando” Lives: Molecular Genetic Evidence of a Giant Aspen Clone in Central Utah (2008, unknown): “Additional research, possibly using large clones such as “Pando,” into the accumulation and propagation of somatic mutations could be an important step toward understanding phenomena such as clonal growth and senescence (Gardner and Mangel 1997, Eckert 2001, Vaupel et al. 2004).”
Is asexual reproduction more important at geographical limits? A genetic study of the seagrass Zostera marina in the Ria Formosa, Portugal (2003, background): “In addition, sexual reproduction may be affected by ploidy levels, sterility mutations or the interaction of genetic and ecological factors over evolutionary time, through environmental selection against traits involved with sexual reproduction (Eckert 2002).”
The optimal balance between sexual and asexual reproduction in variable environments: a systematic review (2016, background): “Most of the clonal plants mainly rely on clonal propagation and exhibit lower rate of sexual reproduction (Eckert 2002).”
The Evolutionary Maintenance of Sexual Reproduction: Evidence from the Ecological Distribution of Asexual Reproduction in Clonal Plants (2008, background): “Dorken ME, CG Eckert 2001 Severely reduced sexual reproduction in northern populations of a clonal plant, Decodon verticillatus (Lythraceae).”
Going against the flow: retention, range limits and invasions in advective environments (2006, background): “Such a strategy may help to explain why many species with mixed modes of reproduction (e.g. vegetative or sexual reproduction) primarily reproduce vegetatively or asexually at their distributional limits (Dixon 1965, Whittick 1978, De Wreede & Klinger 1988, Eckert 2002, Billingham et al. 2003).”
The Dynamic Nature of Apomixis in the Angiosperms (2008, background): “O’Connell and Eckert (2001) provide evidence of a twofold advantage in apomictic females of the dioecious Antennaria parlinii.”
Adaptive genetic differentiation in life-history traits between populations of Mimulus guttatus with annual and perennial life-cycles (2007, background): “However, the evolution of the balance between both modes of reproduction in plants is still poorly understood (Eckert 2002; Fischer and van Kleunen 2002).”
GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN CLONAL STRUCTURE IN A REEF- BUILDING CARIBBEAN CORAL, ACROPORA PALMATA (2006, background): “Studies of flowering plants have likewise found reliance on asexual reproduction at the geographic periphery of species’ ranges (see Dorken and Eckert 2001).”
Marginal coral populations: the densest known aggregation of Pocillopora in the Galápagos Archipelago is of asexual origin (2014, background): “In species capable of asexual reproduction and/or self-fertilization, a rare migrant to a novel environment can successfully establish high local population densities via fragmentation and local recruitment of selfed larvae even in the absence of other sexual partners (Eckert, 2002).”
Contribution of genetics and genomics to seagrass biology and conservation (2007, background): “, 2003), in line with the general hypothesis that plant populations lose sexual fertility at their range margins (=geographic parthenogenesis; Bierzychudek, 1985; Eckert, 2002).”
Death without sex—the ‘problem of the small’ and selection for reproductive economy in flowering plants (2008, background): “…suggests that there may have been a loss of sex in some clonal plants through the accumulation/maintenance of sterility mutations in populations where sexual recruitment is not the predominant mode of recruitment, and/or where sexual recruitment is impaired by the environment (Eckert 2002).”