BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Plant traits correlated with generation time directly affect inbreeding depression and mating system and indirectly genetic structure

Jérôme Duminil1,2*, Olivier J Hardy1 and Rémy J Petit3,4

Author Affiliations

1 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences, Service Evolution Biologique et Ecologie, CP 160/12, 50 Av. F. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

2 Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux, Laboratoire d'écologie, 2 Passage des Déportés 5030 Gembloux, Belgium

3 INRA, UMR 1202 Biodiversity, Genes and Communities, F-33610 Cestas, France

4 Université de Bordeaux, UMR 1202 Biodiversity, Genes and Communities, F-33610 Cestas, France

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:177 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-177

Published: 27 July 2009

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Plant traits and genetic characteristics of the species. Description of the set of variables studied for the set of species.

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Phylogenetic supertree of the 263 species. This figure describes the topology of the phylogenetic tree used for PICs analyses.

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Mean and standard deviation of tm, FIS and FST as a function of the various plant traits. The data provided represent the mean and standard deviation of genetic characteristics of the studied species by plant traits categories (growth form, perenniality, mode of pollen dispersal, mating system).

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Phylogenetically-controlled regression analyses between FST, FST' and other variables. The data provided represent the results of the PICs analyses among FST and FST' and other variables for short-lived, long-lived and woody species separately.

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Mating system distribution (percentage of species) in function of species perenniality, growth form and mode of pollen dispersal. The data provided represent the distribution of the outcrossing rates among all species by perenniality, growth form and mode of pollen dispersal categories.

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