We further show that mating system affects FST via its effect on pollen-mediated gene flow and on effective population size (i.e. drift).
Furthermore, interaction between various ecological and biological factors, such as genetic drift, gene flow, selection, and mating system, affects the genetic structure of any plant populations [ 24].
This is because features intrinsic to particular species (i.e., life history and mating system) affect Nb /N or Ne /N, as do extrinsic features such as habitat alteration (e.g., Turner et al. 2006) and overharvesting (e.g., Hauser et al. 2002).
B. orellana displays a mixed mating system affected by the agronomic system.
Mating system affects genetic diversity in the various species and populations.
Furthermore, our study confirms previous studies for anurans which show that the mating system affects relative testes size [ 30, 61- 63].
Mating system affects cue diversity via at least four distinct mechanisms, and its effects interact with other parameters such as population structure.
We first held all parameters constant except for b, m and x, to test how the mating system affects the evolution of cue-dependent cooperation.
A recent analysis of sequence polymorphisms in plants has revealed that the mating system affects GC content, with a higher content in outcrossing compared to selfing taxa being observed, but this effect is significant only in Poaceae that are known to have unusual GC contents [ 48].
In addition, mating systems are likely to affect genome size evolution via population size and spread of transposable elements [ 57].
