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Sam McCarren

University of Cape TownORCID 0000-0002-3861-0811Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:plant (other)· 2 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Bruce AndersoniD· 2 shared Ana Carolina Sabino de OliveiraiD· 1 shared Marco SaltiniiD· 1 shared Nicola IllingiD· 1 shared Spencer C. H. BarrettiD· 1 shared Vinícius Lourenço Garcia de BritoiD· 1 shared

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintMar 12, 2026

Abiotic pollen loss: The neglected pollen fate

Bruce Anderson, Sam McCarren, Ana Carolina Sabino de Oliveira, Vinícius Lourenço Garcia de Brito

The paper quantifies abiotic pollen loss in four plant species and finds it accounts for a large proportion of total pollen loss, sometimes exceeding pollinator-mediated removal.

DOI 10.64898/2026.03.10.710827

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintSep 23, 2025

Selective contexts favouring asymmetry: a theoretical and empirical study of pollen transfer in mirror-image flowers

Marco Saltini, Sam McCarren, Nicola Illing…·Bruce Anderson

This study examines how floral asymmetry affects pollen transfer and mating outcomes, finding that dimorphic enantiostyly enhances outcrossing but increases stochasticity in pollen transfer.

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