What does the male function hypothesis claim?

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 735-742

  Burd, ^a,b   Callahan, ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Excess flowers; Fitness gain function; Modular growth; Paternal fitness; Path analysis; Reproductive evolution

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; FLOWERING PLANT; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0033805485     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00220.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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