Responses of floral traits to selection on primary sexual investment in Spergularia marina: The battle between the sexes

Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 717-731

  Mazer, Susan J ^a   Delesalle, Véronique A ^b   Neal, Paul R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Gender; Pollen ovule ratio; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FLOWER; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SEX ALLOCATION;

SPERGULARIA MARINA;

EID: 0032799864     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1999.tb05366.x     Document Type: Article

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