Ecological differentiation and diploid superiority across a moving ploidy contact zone

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 125-140

  Buggs, Richard J A ^a   Pannell, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hybrid zone; Local adaptation; Mercurialis annua; Polyploidy; Reciprocal transplant; Species range; Tension zone

Indexed keywords

ANEMOPHILY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FITNESS; HERB; HYBRID ZONE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PARAPATRY; PLOIDY; RANGE EXPANSION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EUPHORBIA; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLOIDY; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; EUPHORBIACEAE; GEOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PLOIDIES; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

MERCURIALIS ANNUA;

EID: 33947261080     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00010.x     Document Type: Article

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