Allele substitution at a flower colour locus produces a pollinator shift in monkeyflowers

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6963, 2003, Pages 176-178

  Bradshaw Jr , H D ^a   Schemske, Douglas W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; PIGMENTS;

CAROTENOID PIGMENTS; MUTATIONS; WILD PLANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CAROTENOID;

COLOR; PLANT; POLLINATION;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEE; BIRD; BREEDING; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWER; GENE LOCUS; MIMULUS CARDINALIS; MIMULUS LEWISII; MUTATION; NEAR ISOGENIC LINE; NONHUMAN; PETAL; PLANT; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; WILD TYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BEES; COLOR; FLOWERS; MIMULUS; MUTATION; PIGMENTATION; POLLEN;

APOIDEA; AVES; CARDINALIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; MIMULUS CARDINALIS; MIMULUS LEWISII; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 0344873755     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02106     Document Type: Article

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