How to look like a mallow: Evidence of floral mimicry between Turneraceae and Malvaceae

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1623, 2007, Pages 2239-2248

  Benitez Vieyra, Santiago ^a   De Ibarra, Natalie Hempel ^b,c   Wertlen, Anna M ^b   Cocucci, Andrea A ^a  

^a Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal   (Argentina)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flower mimicry; Malvaceae; Mutualism; M llerian; Pollination; Turneraceae

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; EVOLUTION; HERB; MIMICRY; MUTUALISM; PHENOTYPE; POLLINATION;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FLOWER COLOR; FLOWER MORPHOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); IMITATION; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURNERA; TURNERA SIDOIDES; TURNERACEAE;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; MALVACEAE; TURNERA SIDOIDES; TURNERACEAE;

EID: 34548476226     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0588     Document Type: Article

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