Seed morphometrics and adaptive geographic differentiation

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 344-354

  Lawrence Venable, D ^a   Dyreson, Eric ^a   Piñero, Daniel ^b   Becerra, Judith X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Dispersal; Dormancy; Ecotypic differentiation; Genetic distance; Germination; Heterosperma pinnatum; Morphometrics; Seed heteromorphism

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; SEED MORPHOLOGY;

MEXICO;

ASTERACEAE; HETEROSPERMA PINNATUM;

EID: 2642600028     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb01636.x     Document Type: Article

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