Changes in sexual organ reciprocity and phenotypic floral integration during the tristyly-distyly transition in Oxalis alpina

New Phytologist

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 829-840

  Sosenski, Paula ^a   Fornoni, Juan ^a   Molina Freaner, Francisco E ^a   Weller, Stephen G ^b   Domínguez, César A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraints; Distyly; Floral integration; Flower morphology; Heterostyly; Phenotypic evolution; Phenotypic matrix; Tristyly

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; DICOTYLEDON; FLORAL TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; POLLINATION; RECIPROCITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FERN; FLOWER; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MEXICO; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION;

FERNS; FLOWERS; GEOGRAPHY; MEXICO; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION;

OXALIS ALPINA;

EID: 74549161650     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03105.x     Document Type: Article

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