Phenotypic plasticity of hermaphrodite sex allocation promotes the evolution of separate sexes: An experimental test of the sex-differential plasticity hypothesis using Sagittaria latifolia (Alismataceae)

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 971-978

  Dorken, Marcel E ^a,b   Mitchard, Edward T A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dioecy; Gender; Gynodioecy; Monoecy; Sagittaria latifolia; Sex allocation plasticity

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GYNODIOECY; HERMAPHRODITE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MONOCOTYLEDON; MONOECY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEED PRODUCTION; SEX ALLOCATION;

ARROWHEAD; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SEX;

EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; PHENOTYPE; SAGITTARIA; SEEDS; SEX;

ALISMATACEAE; SAGITTARIA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 41749105081     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00336.x     Document Type: Article

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