Sterility in Hybrid Pollens

Genetic distance between pairs of species of the genus Silene and proportion of their hybrid offspring that are sterile.

Usage

Pollen

Format

A data frame with 23 observations on the following 2 variables.

genetic.distance

a numeric vector

proportion.sterile

a numeric vector

Source

Moyle, L.C., M.S. Olson, and P. Tiffin. 2004. Patterns of reproductive isolation in three angiosperm genera. Evolution 58: 1195-1208.

Examples

str(Pollen)
#> 'data.frame':	23 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ genetic.distance  : num  0 0 0 0 0 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.04 ...
#>  $ proportion.sterile: num  0.02 0.06 0.14 0.24 0.3 0.62 0.28 0.23 0.15 0.45 ...
xyplot(proportion.sterile ~ genetic.distance, Pollen)