0 the process in which a seed or egg starts developing into a new plant or animal after joining with a male cell from the same plant or animal, rather than a different one --
Expectations for inbreeding depression on self-fertilization of tetraploids.
Under these circumstances, homozygosity associated with self-fertilization is ineffective at reducing average element number.
Outbreeding, self-fertilization, gynogenesis and triploidy would influence the recombination of alleles between individuals and hence the degree of genetic diversity generated by each fluke.
Eggs are produced by self-fertilization (most trematodes are hermaphroditic), bypassing the need for the worm to mature in a definitive host.
Animals mix it up too: the distribution of self-fertilization among hermaphroditic animals.
Some reproductive factors affecting the selection of self-fertilization in plants.
Suppose the offspring is to be produced through self-fertilization.
Also, self-fertilization, as mentioned above, is expected to promote local population differentiation.
