Diversity and evolution of a trait mediating ant-plant interactions: Insights from extrafloral nectaries in Senna (Leguminosae)

Annals of Botany

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1263-1275

  Marazzi, Brigitte ^a,b   Conti, Elena ^b   Sanderson, Michael J ^a   Mcmahon, Michelle M ^c   Bronstein, Judith L ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

ant protection; Ant plant mutualism; extrafloral nectaries; Fabaceae; functional morphology; homology; key innovation; morphological evolution; ontogeny; phylogeny; Senna

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; LEAF; LEGUME; MUTUALISM; NECTARY; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANT; ANT PROTECTION; ANT-PLANT MUTUALISM; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES; FABACEAE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; KEY INNOVATION; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; NECTAR; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SENNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANT PROTECTION; ANT-PLANT MUTUALISM; EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES; FABACEAE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; KEY INNOVATION; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; SENNA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT NECTAR; SENNA PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; FABACEAE; FORMICIDAE; SENNA;

EID: 84878317023     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs226     Document Type: Article

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