ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2010
Ecological genetics of sex ratios in plant populations.
Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed.
- Diverging sex ratios in dioecious Proteaceae are exacerbated by anthropogenic disruptions to the fire cycle.Annals of botany · 2026Article
- The costs of reproduction can and do differ between the sexes.Annals of botany · 2025Review
- Article
- Variable resource allocation pattern, biased sex-ratio, and extent of sexual dimorphism in subdioecious Hippophae rhamnoides.PloS one · 2024Article
- Plant sex influences on riparian communities and ecosystems.Ecology and evolution · 2023Review
- Physiological aspects of sex differences and Haldane's rule in Rumex hastatulus.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Migration restores hybrid incompatibility driven by mitochondrial-nuclear sexual conflict.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Unequal allocation between male versus female reproduction cannot explain extreme vegetative dimorphism in Aulax species (Cape Proteaceae).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Sex-biased genes and metabolites explain morphologically sexual dimorphism and reproductive costs in Salix paraplesia catkins.Horticulture research · 2021Article
- The maintenance of stable yield and high genetic diversity in the agricultural heritage torreya tree system.BMC ecology · 2019Article
- Comparative development of staminate and pistillate flowers in the dioecious cactus Opuntia robusta.Plant reproduction · 2019Article
- Article
- The role of breeding system in community dynamics: Growth and mortality in forests of different successional stages.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Effects of model-mimic frequency on insect visitation and plant reproduction in a self-mimicry pollination system.AoB PLANTS · 2017Article
- Female Salix viminalis are more severely infected by Melampsora spp. but neither sex experiences associational effects.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- Alternative Growth and Defensive Strategies Reveal Potential and Gender Specific Trade-Offs in Dioecious Plants Salix paraplesia to Nutrient Availability.Frontiers in plant science · 2016Article
- No evidence of sexual niche partitioning in a dioecious moss with rare sexual reproduction.Annals of botany · 2015Article
- Influences of clonality on plant sexual reproduction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Sex determination in dioecious Mercurialis annua and its close diploid and polyploid relatives.Heredity · 2015Article
- The evolution of plant reproductive systems: how often are transitions irreversible?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2013Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In many angiosperm species, populations are reproductively subdivided into distinct sexual morphs including females, males and hermaphrodites. Sexual polymorphism is maintained by frequency-dependent selection, leading to predictable sex ratios at equilibrium. Charles Darwin devoted much of his book 'The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species' (1877) to investigating plant sexual polymorphisms and laid the foundation for many problems addressed today by integrating theory with empirical studies of the demography and genetics of populations. Here, we summarize our recent work on the ecological and genetic mechanisms influencing variation in sex ratios and their implications for evolutionary transitions among sexual systems. We present the results of a survey of sex ratios from 126 species from 47 angiosperm families and then address two general problems using examples from diverse angiosperm taxa: (i) the mechanisms governing biased sex ratios in dioecious species; (ii) the origins and maintenance of populations composed of females, males and hermaphrodites. Several themes are emphasized, including the importance of non-equilibrium conditions, the role of life history and demography in affecting sex ratios, the value of theory for modelling the dynamics of sex ratio variation, and the utility of genetic markers for investigating evolutionary processes in sexually polymorphic plant populations.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.