Adaptive significance and ontogenetic variability of the waxy zone in Nepenthes rafflesiana

Annals of Botany

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1281-1291

  Gaume, Laurence ^a   Di Giusto, Bruno ^a,b  

^a UMR AMAP   (France)

^b UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

Carnivorous plant; Developmental evolution; Digestive liquid; Epicuticular wax; Heteroblasty; Heterochrony; Insect trapping; Leaf form; Morphological diversity; Nepenthes rafflesiana; Ontogenetic change; Pitcher plant

Indexed keywords

WAX;

ADAPTATION; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); ONTOGENY; PREY CAPTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAPPING;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BRUNEI DARUSSALAM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FLY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; SARRACENIACEAE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTS; BRUNEI; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; SARRACENIACEAE; WAXES;

BORNEO;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; NEPENTHES; NEPENTHES RAFFLESIANA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 73149095816     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcp238     Document Type: Article

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