Understanding ontogenetic trajectories of indirect defence: Ecological and anatomical constraints in the production of extrafloral nectaries

Annals of Botany

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 701-709

  Villamil, Nora ^a   Márquez Guzmán, Judith ^b   Boege, Karina ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anatomical constraints; Ants; Extrafloral nectaries; Indirect defences; Myrmecophytic plants; Ontogeny; Turnera velutina

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANT; HERB; HISTOLOGY; JUVENILE; MORPHOLOGY; NECTAR; ONTOGENY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION;

ANATOMICAL CONSTRAINTS; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INDIRECT DEFENCES; MYRMECOPHYTIC PLANTS; NECTAR; ONTOGENY; PASSIFLORACEAE; SECRETION (PROCESS); SYMBIOSIS; TURNERA VELUTINA;

ANATOMICAL CONSTRAINTS; ANTS; EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES; INDIRECT DEFENCES; MYRMECOPHYTIC PLANTS; ONTOGENY; TURNERA VELUTINA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; PASSIFLORACEAE; PLANT NECTAR; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84882423153     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct005     Document Type: Article

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