Hermaphroditism promotes mate diversity in flowering plants.

Dorothy A ChristopherRandall J MitchellDorset W TrapnellPatrick A SmallwoodWendy R SemskiJeffrey D Karron

Published in: American journal of botany (2019)

Dual sex roles contribute to a near doubling of mate diversity in our experimental population of Mimulus ringens. This finding may help explain the maintenance of hermaphroditism under conditions that would otherwise favor the evolution of separate sexes.

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