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A framework for the evaluation of quality of care in maternity services

open access: yes, 2000
Hulton, Louise   +2 more
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Pollination generalization and reproductive assurance by selfing in a tropical montane ecosystem

open access: yesThe Science of Nature, 2021
Pollination and reproduction are important processes for understanding plant community dynamics. Information regarding pollination and reproduction is urgent for threatened ecosystems, such as tropical montane ecosystems. In tropical mountains, pollination patterns are expected to conform to the reproductive assurance theory (due to low pollinator ...
Pedro Joaquim, Bergamo   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The evolution of mating‐type switching for reproductive assurance

open access: yesBioEssays, 2016
Alternative ways to ensure mate compatibility, such as hermaphroditism and the breakdown of self‐incompatibility, evolved repeatedly when finding a mating partner is difficult. In a variety of microorganisms where compatibility is determined by mating‐types, a highly regulated form of universal compatibility system called mating‐type switching has ...
Bart P. S. Nieuwenhuis, Simone Immler
openaire   +3 more sources

Genetic cost of reproductive assurance in a self-fertilizing plant

Nature, 2002
The transition from outcrossing to self-fertilization is one of the most common evolutionary trends in plants. Reproductive assurance, where self-fertilization ensures seed production when pollinators and/or potential mates are scarce, is the most long-standing and most widely accepted explanation for the evolution of selfing, but there have been few ...
Christopher R Herlihy   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

GEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE OF POLLINATOR COMMUNITIES, REPRODUCTIVE ASSURANCE, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-POLLINATION

Ecology, 2006
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Reproductive assurance is often invoked as an explanation for the evolution of self-fertilization in plants. However, key aspects of this hypothesis have received little empirical support. In this study, I use geographic surveys of pollinator communities along with functional studies of floral trait ...
David A Moeller
exaly   +4 more sources

ALLEE EFFECT AND SELF-FERTILIZATION IN HERMAPHRODITES: REPRODUCTIVE ASSURANCE IN A STRUCTURED METAPOPULATION

Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 2008
Reproductive assurance through selfing during colonization events or when population densities are low has often been put forward as a mechanism selecting for the evolution of self-fertilization. Such arguments emphasize on the role of both local demography and metapopulation processes.
François Munoz   +1 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Facilitated selfing offers reproductive assurance: a mutualism between a hemipteran and carnivorous plant

American Journal of Botany, 2003
Reproductive assurance is frequently used to explain the evolution of selfing but has become controversial from lack of evidence. We studied the pollination system of the near carnivorous plant genus Roridula and showed that reproductive assurance is important in this system. Hemipterans have a digestive mutualism with Roridula and have been implicated
Bruce Anderson   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Relationship between reproductive assurance and mixed mating in perennial Kosteletzkya virginica

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Botany, 2011
Recent works have shown that mixed mating systems often evolve despite strong inbreeding depression and reproductive assurance, which is one of the widely accepted explanations for the evolution of selfing.
Qin, P.   +5 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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