"Self-Fertilization" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The fusion of a male gamete with a female gamete from the same individual animal or plant.
| Descriptor ID |
D057945
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.090.403.590 G08.686.784.277.560 G15.830
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Self-Fertilization" by people in Profiles.
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Full-genome evolutionary histories of selfing, splitting, and selection in Caenorhabditis. Genome Res. 2015 May; 25(5):667-78.
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Two Arabidopsis loci encode novel eukaryotic initiation factor 4E isoforms that are functionally distinct from the conserved plant eukaryotic initiation factor 4E. Plant Physiol. 2014 Apr; 164(4):1820-30.