Many plant species have established self-sustaining populations outside their natural range because of human activities. Plants with selfing ability should be more likely to establish outside their ...

There are flowering plants that have the ability to self-pollinate, meaning that they can fertilize themselves without a partner. A biological advantage of self-pollination, also known as "selfing", ...

Most plants have developed mechanisms to prevent self-fertilization and its detrimental effects of inbreeding depression. Traits promoting selfing in plants have been approached mainly from the ...

Hermaphroditic organisms can reproduce by means of three strategies: outcrossing, bi-parental inbreeding and selfing. Outcrossing involves cross-fertilization with a randomly selected mate and is ...

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Plants and animals that can choose between sexual reproduction and self-fertilization produce longer-living offspring when they choose a mate, University of Oregon researchers find. Elizabeth ...

One of the most widely-studied worms in the world is the tiny, humble vinegar worm, known to science as C. elegans. And this worm has a really interesting way of reproducing. It’s called selfing.

KINGSTON UPON HULL, England, March 24 (UPI) --Researchers at Hull University in England recently happened upon a female cichlid "selfing" -- having sex with herself. The fish, a hybrid of two cichlid ...