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SELFING IN INVASIVE PLANTS. “We found breeding-system data for a total of 1,752 species covering all major clades of angiosperms, from 161 families, and from all over the world” and their data supports a major selfing theory. https://lnkd.in/d5EUtN2 View in LinkedIn

CONTINUATION OF THE GERMPLASM. "Samuel Butler once said, "The hen is the egg's way of making another egg." There is a much truth in this adage. In the natural world, the egg's vehicle, be it fish, fowl or flower, doesn't matter. What does matter is that the vehicle gets the egg fertilized, hatched, and far enough along in development to have a chance of producing another egg." http://public.wsu.edu/~taflinge/biosex1.html View in LinkedIn

THE EVOLUTION OF SELFING. “Selfing has evolved in animals, fungi, and plants, and since Darwin's pioneering study, it is considered one of the most frequent evolutionary trends in flowering plants. Generally, the evolution of selfing is characterized by a loss of self-incompatibility, the selfing syndrome, and changes in genome-wide polymorphism patterns.” https://lnkd.in/dgPt-cE View in LinkedIn

SELFING. A comprehensive primer. https://lnkd.in/d9-MsRr View in LinkedIn

DISTINCT STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES. "However, in plants, clonal growth and selfing result from entirely different structures and processes, and the selective forces responsible for their respective origins and maintenance are quite distinct." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full View in LinkedIn

DISTINCTION. "Because clonal growth does not involve sexual reproduction, botanists make a clear distinction between predominant self-fertilization and clonal reproduction, a separation that is not as evident in the literature involving some other groups: e.g., fungi and parasitic protozoa. Both forms of uniparental reproduction limit recombination and can result in similar signatures of population genetic structure." http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8859.full View in LinkedIn

CAPSID ASSEMBLY. "Bacteriophage P22 provides a well-studied example for assembly of capsids formed from subunits with the HK97-fold. Assembly of bacteriophage P22 in vivo proceeds via a nucleation-limited reaction in which 415 copies of coat protein (gp5, the product of gene 5) co-polymerize with 60–300 scaffolding proteins (gp8), the dodecameric portal protein complex (gp1), and ejection proteins (gp7, gp16 and gp20)." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001920 View in LinkedIn

DRAMATIC CAPACITY. "The versatility of the HK97-fold is also evident when comparing the diameters of capsids with confirmed HK97-like coat proteins, which range from ~24 nm to ~185 nm. This fold evolved to accommodate these dramatic differences in capsid diameter and the varying degrees of capsid curvature accompanying the spectrum of diameters." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001920 View in LinkedIn

PENTON AND HEXON SUBUNITS. "In capsids, HK97-like coat protein subunits are organized into pentons and hexons. An exception would be for capsids with a triangulation (T) number of 1, which would be composed entirely of pentons." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001920 View in LinkedIn

OTHER COMMON STRUCTURES. "Viruses using the HK97-fold share unexpected similarities beyond the fold of their coat proteins including the architecture of their virions, an internal scaffolding (or Δ-domain) protein-mediated assembly, active dsDNA packaging, and capsid maturation events." (dsDNA = double stranded DNA). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682215001920 View in LinkedIn