Female gamete competition in an ancient angiosperm lineage

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 12360-12365

  Bachelier, Julien B ^a,b   Friedman, William E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwin; Evolution of flowering plants; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; ENDOSPERM; FEMALE; FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLLEN TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIMENIA MOOREI;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FERTILIZATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; OVULE; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE;

AUSTROBAILEYALES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRIMENIA (ANGIOSPERM); TRIMENIA MOOREI;

EID: 79961064515     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1104697108     Document Type: Article

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