Different rewards in female and male flowers can explain the evolution of sexual dimorphism in plants

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 97-109

  Hemborg, Åsa M ^a   Bond, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dioecious plants; Floral evolution; Leucadendron xanthoconus; Pollen beetle; Pollination ecology; Pria cinarescens

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FLORAL TRAIT; POLLINATION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEUCADENDRON; LEUCADENDRON XANTHOCONUS; MELIGETHES; NITIDULIDAE; PROTEACEAE;

EID: 18644386329     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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