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LINEAR PATH. “Few believe that transitions from selfing to outcrossing are common.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

BAD STRATEGY. “The repeated evolution of selfing is thought to be an evolutionary ‘blind alley’, or ‘dead end’.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

THE GREAT WINNOWING. “Such higher order selection, manifested through different birth and death rates of lineages associated with outcrossing and selfing populations and species, could ensure that selfing lineages fail, presumably because of their limited capacity to adapt to changing environments, or their susceptibility to the accumulation of deleterious mutations.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

SELECTED AGAINST? “Given the widespread occurrence, yet apparently short-lived persistence, of selfing as a strategy, an oft-invoked hypothesis has been that species selection discourages this mating system.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

ANGIOSPERM REPRODUCTION. “Selfing, however, is not the predominant mode of reproduction in angiosperms, and multiple mechanisms may potentially effect intermediate levels of self-fertlization.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF PLANT SELFING. “Over the last 50 yr, an impressive body of theoretical and experimental work has demonstrated that the evolution of selfing is driven by multifarious agents of selection, potentially dominated by its transmission advantage and ability to provide reproductive assurance.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

VIRAL DARK MATTER. "Viruses are the most numerous, and arguably the most diverse, branch of life. They have been described as the ‘dark matter’ of biology because they can be very hard to detect, and the large-scale sequencing of genetic material from the environment is only now showing us how numerous and diverse they really are." https://lnkd.in/dYBnxsT View in LinkedIn

FLAWED DATA. “Sources of data that apparently contradict strongly asymmetric mating system transitions often rely on statistical phylogenetic tests plagued by profound flaws.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn

EMERGING PHAGOSPHERE. "This view reveals substantial diversity even among phages known to infect a common host strain, but the relationships are complex, with mosaic genomic architectures generated by illegitimate recombination over a long period of evolutionary history." A promiscuous bunch. http://jvi.asm.org/content/89/16/8107.short View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL MYTHS. “A compound hypothesis positing that self-fertilization is an evolutionary dead end conflates two distinct claims: the transition from outcrossing to selfing is unidirectional; and the diversification rate, or the balance of the speciation and extinction rate, is negative for selfing species. Both claims have enjoyed widespread informal support for decades, but have recently come under suspicion.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.12182/full View in LinkedIn