Where is the cost in copper tolerance in Mimulus guttatus? Testing the trade-off hypothesis

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 764-774

  Harper, F A ^a,b   Smith, S E ^a   Macnair, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degree of tolerance; Ecological genetics; Life history traits; Linkage disequilibrium; Pleiotropy; Sexual resource allocation

Indexed keywords

COPPER; METAL TIOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

MIMULUS GUTTATUS; SCROPHULARIACEAE;

EID: 0031405955     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00155.x     Document Type: Article

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