Temporal instability of genetic components of floral trait variation: Maternal family and population effects in Spergularia marina (Caryophyllaceae)

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2509-2515

  Mazer, Susan J ^a   Delesalle, Veronique A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Floral traits; gamete production; gender; maternal effects; population differentiation; quantitative characters; sex allocation

Indexed keywords

CARYOPHYLLACEAE; SPERGULARIA MARINA;

EID: 0030512772     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03637.x     Document Type: Article

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