Limiting the costs of mutualism: Multiple modes of interaction between yuccas and yucca moths

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1415, 1999, Pages 197-202

  Addicott, John F ^a   Bao, Tan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benefits; Conflicts of interest; Costs; Pollination; Seed predation; Selective abscission

Indexed keywords

MUTUALISM; POLLINATION; SEED PREDATION;

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; EGG LAYING; HYPOTHESIS; MORTALITY; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; PRODOXIDAE; SPERMATOPHYTA; TEGETICULA YUCCASELLA; YUCCA;

EID: 0033593553     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0622     Document Type: Article

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