Specialization of flowers: Is floral orientation an overlooked first step?: Letters

New Phytologist

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 502-506

  Fenster, Charles B ^a,b   Armbruster, W Scott ^c,d,e   Dudash, Michele R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOWER; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; FLOWER; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SILENE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FLOWERS; SILENE;

EID: 67650938524     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02852.x     Document Type: Article

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