Using a cost-benefit approach to understand the evolution of self-fertilization in plants: The perplexing case of Aquilegia canadensis (Ranunculaceae)

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 159-173

  Eckert, Christopher G ^a   Herlihy, Christopher R ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquilegia; Biparental inbreeding; Reproductive assurance; Seed discounting; Self fertilization

Indexed keywords

AQUILEGIA; AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS;

EID: 11244251185     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-1984.2004.00112.x     Document Type: Review

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