Cheating is not always punished: Killer female plants and pollination by deceit in the dwarf palm Chamaerops humilis

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 862-868

  Dufay M ^a,b   Anstett, M C ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Arecaceae; Conflict of interests; Curculionidae Derelomini; Mutualism; Nursery pollination; Pollinator choice; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

CHEATING BEHAVIOR; FLOWER VISITING; MUTUALISM; POLLINATION;

ANIMAL; ARECACEAE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGG LAYING; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TIME;

ANIMALS; ARECACEAE; BEETLES; FLOWERS; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTION; SEX FACTORS; SYMBIOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARECACEAE; CHAMAEROPS HUMILIS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DERELOMINI; DERELOMUS;

EID: 3042698843     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00714.x     Document Type: Article

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