One-third to two-thirds of the genets in the three forests were sprouting, with an average of 4.0 5.7 sprouts per sprouting genet.
Therefore, we used summed genet sizes to indicate the local genet density and population size, rather than numbers of adult genets, in order to evaluate effects of both the number and size of individual genets simultaneously.
Notwithstanding large variation in the selfing rate among genets, in the present study it was negatively correlated with local genet density.
Of the 436 outcrossed progeny, 30 originated from mating between genets in different populations (6.88%), and 406 from mating between genets in the same populations (93.12%) (Table 1, Additional file 1).
Genets in larger populations tend to have higher female reproductive success, but may have lower male reproductive success.
In one of the previous studies we also surveyed all genets that flowered at least once from 2002 to 2004 (defined as adult genets) in the eight populations, and recorded the spatial coordinates and diameter at breast height (DBH) of the largest stem of each adult genet in 2007 [ 39].
Gore Vidal, who called Chester's life "a fascinating black comedy," remembered when the man had been regarded as a kind of white hope among gay writers in the years before Stonewall: "There was no doubt in my mind that a master had appeared on the scene, Genet with a brain".
Here, Said recalls meeting Genet in Lebanon in the early 1970's.
