Conflicting selection from an antagonist and a mutualist enhances phenotypic variation in a plant

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1120-1128

  Siepielski, Adam M ^a,b   Benkman, Craig W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimodality; Nucifraga columbiana; Phenotypic selection; Phenotypic variation; Pinus flexilis; Seed dispersal; Seed predation; Tamiasciurus

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; CONIFEROUS TREE; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT MOSAIC; MUTUALISM; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SONGBIRD; SPATIAL VARIATION;

NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA; PINUS FLEXILIS; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCIURIDAE; SONGBIRD; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PINUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCIURIDAE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SONGBIRDS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 77954998733     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00867.x     Document Type: Article

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