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Sex expression, skewed sex ratios, and microhabitat distribution in the dioecious desert moss Syntrichia caninervis (Pottiaceae).
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It is hypothesized that mixed-sex populations are rare because of factors relating to male rarity and that the differential cost of sex expression reduces the clonal growth capacity of male individuals.
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Sex Expression, Plant Size, and Spatial Segregation of the Sexes Across a Stress Gradient in the Desert Moss Syntrichia caninervis
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It is hypothesized that males are less stress tolerant than females and that this condition may be an outgrowth of the sexes allocating differential resources to sexual reproduction.
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The cost of realized sexual reproduction: assessing patterns of reproductive allocation and sporophyte abortion in a desert moss.
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The desert moss Syntrichia caninervis exhibits one of the most skewed sex ratios in the plant kingdom, with female individuals far outnumbering male individuals, and the cost of sex hypothesis, which predicts that the sex which is most expensive should be the rarer sex, is supported.
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Do the Sexes of the Desert Moss Syntrichia caninervis Differ in Desiccation Tolerance? A Leaf Regeneration Assay
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It is concluded that the leaf regeneration assay works well as a response variable for desiccation tolerance (DT) studies and that sex‐based DT, at least with respect to responses to rapid drying cycles in the lab, while not indicated in Syntrichia, may yet operate under field conditions.
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Age and sex-specific rates of leaf regeneration in the Mojave Desert moss Syntrichia caninervis.
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The extremely skewed female-biased sex ratio in the desert moss Syntrichia caninervis was investigated by assessing the regeneration capacity of detached leaves, and the more rapid proliferation of shoots by female leaf regenerants may help to explain the rarity of males in this species.
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Population sex ratios, sex‐specific clonal traits and tradeoffs among these traits in the liverwort Marchantia inflexa
Unisexual, female- or male-biased populations are common among some clonal plants. Within and among populations, the relative frequencies of males and females can be influenced by sex-specific…
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Sex expression and growth rates in natural populations of the desert soil crustal moss Syntrichia caninervis
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The slow growth rates, low rates of sex expression, absence of male plants, and absence of sexual reproduction in this crustal species may help explain why re-establishment of mosses on desert soils can take decades.
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Sex ratios and the shy male hypothesis in the moss Bryum argenteum (Bryaceae)
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It is proposed that factors between spore germination and adult maturation, including clonal dynamics, are causing the female-biased population and within-clump sex ratio imbalance of B. argenteum.
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Sex ratio from germination through maturity and its reproductive consequences in the liverwort Sphaerocarpos texanus
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Field data indicate that males may gain a survival benefit from growing in a mixed sex clump and both males and females benefit reproductively when they occur in mixed sexClumps.
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Transplant Survivorship of Bryophyte Soil Crusts in the Mojave Desert
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Patches of the dominant biological soil crust moss (Syntrichia caninervis) in the Mojave Desert were subjected to transplant experiments to test the survivability of crustal transplantation due to source or destination microhabitat, with one of the transplant treatments, the shaded to exposed, exhibiting a greater loss in shoot density and decline in cover than its reciprocal transplant, exposed to shaded.
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