Marriage exchanges, seed exchanges, and the dynamics of manioc diversity

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

Volumn 108, Issue 45, 2011, Pages 18249-18254

  Delêtre, Marc ^a,b   McKey, Doyle B ^c   Hodkinson, Trevor R ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Seed transmission; Social reproduction; Traditional economic systems

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CASSAVA; ETHNOBOTANY; FARMING SYSTEM; FEMALE; GABON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LANDRACE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GABON;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 81055141404     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106259108     Document Type: Article

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