Experimental dissection of inbreeding and its adaptive significance in a flowering plant, Aquilegia canadensis (Ranunculaceae)

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2693-2703

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

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquilegia canadensis; Autogamy; Biparental inbreeding; Geitonogamy; Herkogamy; Inbreeding; Mating system evolution; Self fertilization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; AUTOGAMY; EVOLUTION; INBREEDING; POLLINATION;

ANIMALIA; AQUILEGIA; AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; RANUNCULACEAE;

EID: 11444261020     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01622.x     Document Type: Article

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