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Meanings of selfing in English

Selfing or self-fertilization is the union of male and female gametes and/or nuclei from the same haploid, diploid, or polyploid organism.

        Usage of selfing in English
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        Outbreeding depression could well be an important force for organisms-likeyourself-thathave a history of selfing.
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        Flowers were not autonomously selfing, and the floral life span exhibited considerable plasticity depending on pollinator availability.
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        We show how our method can be extended to allow for degrees of inbreeding closer than cousin unions, including selfing.
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        Among animal hermaphrodites, much less is known about the proclivity for selfing, but what is clear is that many don't-indeed ,can't
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        When males are rare, as they are in Florida, a population of mangrove fish consists of hermaphrodites who have been selfing for generations.
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        We predict 32,670 genes in this outcrossing species compared to the 27,025 genes in the selfing species Arabidopsis thaliana.
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        Selfing through the time